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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Source: In...
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Source: In
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...
As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so...
Thank Heaven! the crisis --
The danger, is past,
And the lingering illness,
Is over at last --,
And the...
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it...
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life...
To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defence against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting...
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the...
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to...
What is more important in a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it...
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in...
I think you have to deal with the confused situation that we're faced with by seizing on the glimpses and particles of...
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life --to reduce it to order but at...
A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
Source: In...
A little learning is a dang'rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts...
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.
Source: An Essay on Criticism ...
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Source: An Essay on Man, 1734
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.