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- I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
- James Boswell (1740 - 1795)
- Deep is a wounded heart, and strong
A voice that cries against a mighty wrong; And full of death as a hot wind's blight, Doth the ire of a crushed affection light. - Felicia Hermans
- I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.
- Terence (185 BC - 159 BC)
- The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- She is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me; Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light. - Hartley Coleridge
- Tis the witching hour of night,
Or bed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen For what listen they? - John Keats (1795 - 1821)
- Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.
- Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
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