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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for… — Thomas Paine
Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are… — Toni Morrison
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.… — Henry George
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. — P.J. O'Rourke
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. — Samuel Palmer
I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things. — Alan Coren
"Why should I become angry just because another man has made a fool of himself. Do thou resist not evil!" That is what the lovers… — Swami Vivekananda
Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head… — Walter de La Mare
The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and… — David Walker
Regardless of what the tour pros think, golf is a rich and varied game, and what all of us awkward fools do on weekends is… — Dan Jenkins
What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass. — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am. — Alice James
If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried… — Dale Carnegie
It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand. — Roger Caras
The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live. — Epicurus
Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of… — Thomas Browne
Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the… — Charles de Gaulle
Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise. — Pope Boniface VIII
Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force. — Laozi
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the… — Benjamin Franklin

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