Quotes with perilous

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  • Confucius Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Ambrose Bierce A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Lord Nelson I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
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  • Hannah More Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • C. S. Lewis Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies - those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Ouida The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.''
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Machiavelli There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • William Shakespeare Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Coward: One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
    The Devil's Dictionary
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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