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mistake power order
It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms. Charles Caleb Colton
mistake greatness ignorant
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
mistake flirting errors
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
mistake ignorance writing
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
mistake creativity science
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
mistake block sweat
Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing. Charles Stross
mistake ends chains
Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.
mistake men thank-god
Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest. Charles Spurgeon
mistake beginning-middle-and-end execution
A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.
usual hours foolish
Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless? E. T. A. Hoffmann
usual holmes compounds
I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual. - Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
usual common born
The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life. Blaise Pascal
usual whilst
When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces. Raymond E. Feist
usual
We pounded it inside. That isn't something we do real well, but we did it better than usual tonight. Ryan Robertson
usual timing
As usual, my timing is bizarrely good. Jamie Oliver
usual accomplished senate
I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual. Clara Barton
usual
He would never do just the usual on-the-road burgers and chips. Franz Ferdinand
usual poor schemes
As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries. Vandana Shiva
leaves-of-grass persons
Are you the new person drawn toward me? Walt Whitman
leaves-of-grass democratic nations
Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.
leaves-of-grass shows smallest
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.
leaves-of-grass world sound
I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
leaves-of-grass objects
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
leaves-of-grass individual theory
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
leaves-of-grass tamed bits
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.
leaves-of-grass lucky born
Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
leaves-of-grass grass walt
It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards. Thomas Wentworth Higginson