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Swear his thought over by each particular star in heaven and by all their influences, you may as well forbid the sea for to obey the moon as or by oath remove or counsel shake the fabric of his folly, whose foundation is piled upon his faith and will continue the standing of his body (Folly Quotes)
Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger from their folly, not from their wisdom; their weakness is what fills us with apprehension, not their strength (Folly Quotes)
One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and betrayals (Folly Quotes)
Folly consists in the drawing of false conclusions from just principles, by which it is distinguished from madness, which draws just conclusions from false principles (Folly Quotes)
If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others (Folly Quotes)
I have no cause to fear; and if they scorn me as a victim of their guilt, I can pity their folly and despise their scorn (Folly Quotes)
There is no absurdity or contradiction to which passion may not lead a man. When love or hate takes control, reason must submit and then discover justifications for their folly (Folly Quotes)
My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition (Folly Quotes)
Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret (Folly Quotes)
Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys (Folly Quotes)
Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are love, hope, and wonder. Another is deity. The choice to be a fool is yours (Folly Quotes)
Plato said that of all things in the world we should beware of that folly by which most men please themselves and despise a better judgment (Folly Quotes)
The thing formed says that nothing formed it; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not! The folly is infinite (Folly Quotes)
Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it (Folly Quotes)
Falling in love with the idea of the university is not a folly, for only by means of it is one able to see what can be (Folly Quotes)
In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly (Folly Quotes)
Idolatry is certainly the first born of folly, the great and leading paradox; nay, the very abridgment and sum total of all absurdities (Folly Quotes)
This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom, the very fashion of which passeth away (Folly Quotes)
It came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself (Folly Quotes)
How can you make a fool perceive that he is a fool? Such a personage can no more see his own folly than be can see his own ears (Folly Quotes)
Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others (Folly Quotes)
Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable (Folly Quotes)
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him (Folly Quotes)
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance (Folly Quotes)
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery (Folly Quotes)
For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people (Folly Quotes)
Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly (Folly Quotes)
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society (Folly Quotes)
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly (Folly Quotes)
Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind (Folly Quotes)