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quotes by topic Folly

" I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. "

Future , Humanity , Superstition , Burden , Folly

" 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. "

Future , Humanity , Superstition , Burden , Folly

" 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? "

Oliver Goldsmith

Art , Men , Woman , Charm , Guilt , Folly , Melancholy

" Life is hollow without health and freedom. To seek one while ignoring the other is folly. "

G. Edward Griffin

Folly , Life

" One does not simply tell an archangel they have devoted their life to a folly. "

Folly , Doe

" Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his nose where he is not wanted? "

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Literature , Folly

" The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it. This pronouncement seems to state the obvious and yet it is false. Men grow old, the end grows near, each moment becomes more and more valuable and there is no time to waste on recollection. It's important to understand the mathematical paradox in nostalgia, that it is most powerful in early youth , when the volume of life that has passed is quite small. "

Memory , Folly

" A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom. "

Folly , King

" She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir. "

Charles Dickens

Folly

Future , Humanity , Superstition , Burden , Folly , stars

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