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 Miscellaneous
Quotes
 Foolish corner
There is foolish
corner in the brain of the wisest man.
Aristotle
Short
one
I praise loudly; I
blame softly.
Catherine II
Another
Wise is resolve, and
patient to perform.
Homer
Show
and know
Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou
knowest.
Shakespeare
Life
It matters not how
long we live, but how.
Bailey
Kindness....
Kindness gives birth
to kindness.
Sophocles
Try...
No one knows what he
can do till he tries.
Publilius
Syrus
Three
foundations
The three
foundations of learning: seeing much, suffering much and studying much.
Catherall
Greatest
fault
The greatest of all
faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Carlyle
A
good one!
Disappointment is
the nurse of wisdom.
Sir Boyle
Roche
Can
do...
He who imagines he
can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world
cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
La
Rochefoucauld
Despair....
Despair is the
conclusion of fools.
Disraeli
Golden
moments
Do not delay: the
golden moments fly!
Longfellow
A
day
What a day may
bring, a day may take away.
Thomas Fuller
Culture
The highest purpose
of intellectual culture is to give a man perfect knowledge and mastery of
his own inner self.
Novalis
They
can....
They conquer who believe
they can.
Dryden
Today
and yesterday
A man should never
be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other
words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Pope
Music
in....
There's music in the
sighting of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears;
There's earth is but an echo of the spheres.
Byron
Reason
and example
Reason is the wise man's
guide, example the fool's.
Voltaire
Our
own best
One man's way may be as
good as as another's, but we all like our own best.
Jane Austen
Wise
man....
The wise man sees in the
misfortunes of others what he should avoid.
Syrus
Good
and evil
The only good is knowledge,
and the only evil ignorance.
Diogenes
Right..
Anyone can become angry.
That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at
the right time , for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not
easy.
Aristotle
Tongue
of mind
The pen is the tongue of mind.
Cervantes
Common
sense
Common sense is instinct, and
enough of it is genius.
HW Shaw
Pleasure
Fly the pleasure that bites
tomorrow.
Herbet
Happiness
Happy were men if they but understood
there is no safety but in doing good.
John Fountain
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