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" Quotes and Sayings About folly

“In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.”

War Often Life Fail
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There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.

Real Arrive Life Time
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A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

Folly Law Economic Constitutional
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The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.

Severe Constant Result Progress
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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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

Delay Everything Folly Hasten
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He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Folly He Lives Thinks
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

Art Away Betray Charm
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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

Fame Folly Loves Martyrdom
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Expect Folly Keep Others
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My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

Books Folly Looks Me
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In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
Age Folly Hatred Issues
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It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
Folly Friend May Part
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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Law Nature Tolerance Consequence
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Foot Persists.folly Wise
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
Hours Measured Clock Wisdom
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Humanity Stars Future Lost
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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

Anxious Cannot Checking Contain
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It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
Great Folly Makes Early
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Folly always knows the answer.
Always Answer Folly Knows
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Sometimes Likes Foolish people Wisdom
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Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
Every Man Folly Greatest
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Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly.

Music Satan Most attractive Soul
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Ultimate result Shielding men Effect World
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To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

Christ like World Worth caring Thing
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For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

Folly Beast Earth Madness
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Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant.

Mingle Little folly Wisdom Pleasant
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Then come at once and pause for breath In chasing wealth. Remembering death And death's dark fires, mix, while you may, Method and madness, work and play. Folly is sweet, well-timed.

Come Breath Chasing wealth Remembering death
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Against the may, the could be, and the should, folly 'tis to balance doubt or hope.

Against May Folly Hope
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Contains Folly Hoped Much
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly

Politics Begins Fear Folly
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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Man Pray Power Obtain
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Life should never be viewed from the vantage point of achievements. It is total folly.

Life Viewed Achievements Folly
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.

Believe Men Honest Worse
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For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

Subtlest Folly Proceeds Wisdom
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

Folly World Man Despair
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