#folly

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time. ↗

— Ovid

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Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. ↗

— Robert Peel

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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

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Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived. ↗

— Francis Quarles

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Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars. ↗

— Tom Robbins

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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics? ↗

— Pat Robertson

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Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman! ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#cease #character #detrimental #equal #folly

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom. ↗

— John Webster

#proceeds #subtlest #wisdom

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. ↗

— Paul Valery

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