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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#dangerous #decisions #hands #hard #imagine

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems. ↗

— Robert Southey

#hasty #how #judgments #little #see

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also. ↗

— Robert Southey

#been #good #good intentions #heaven #hell

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain. ↗

— Robert Southey

#certain #effect #end #evil #good

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves. ↗

— Robert Southey

#god #good #loves #man #sent

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ↗

— Robert Southey

#condensed #deeper #more #sunbeams #words

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. ↗

— Robert Southey

#half #life #live #long #longest

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity. ↗

— Robert Southey

#fly #life #love #other #others

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure. ↗

— Robert Southwell

#gale #hoist #last #man #pleasure

When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown. ↗

— Robert Southwell

#frown #how #i #quickly #she