Quotes 21 till 40 of 87.
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For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.
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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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He must be a thorough fool who can learn nothing from his own folly.
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He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
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His folly has not fellow
Beneath the blue of day
That gives to man or woman
His heart and soul away.A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 14, st. 3 -
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
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Is there war in our religion? No; neither war nor bloodshed. Yet our enemies cry out bloodshed, and oh, what dreadful men these Mormons are, and those Danites! how they slay and kill! Such is all nonsense and folly in the extreme. The wicked slay the wicked, and they will lay it on the Saints.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.
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Luxury
Employ'd a Million of the Poor,
And odious Pride a Million more;
Envy it self, and Vanity,
Were Ministers of Industry;
Their darling Folly, Fickleness,
In Diet, Furniture and Dress,
That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made
The very Wheel that turn'd the Trade.The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 180, p. 10 -
Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling (2016) 747
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