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“To turn away a guest is poorest poverty; To bear with fools is mightiest might.”

Might Turns Poverty Fool Bears Guests Poorest

Author:Thiruvalluvar

“Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.”

Men Sometimes Pain Young Pride Fool Bears Young Man Foolishness Badges

Author:Robert Jordan

“I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.”

People Thinking Looks I Can Hours Lines Sea Fool Bears Sitting Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Throwing Catching After Hours

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger, And let not women's weapons, water drops, Stain my man's cheeks.”

Ifs Men Heart Father Water Fool Bears Weapons Daughter Anger Noble Be You Cheeks Stains Touch Me Lear Drop Of Water Fool Me

Book:King Lear

Source: King Lear

“Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.”

Mind May Spirit Wise Fool Bears Equal Behavior Glory Fairs Adversity Brave Fortune Ill Storm Cards Thee Pilots Sail Gale

Author:Francis Quarles

“Earth bears no balsams for mistakes; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will: but thou, O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool.”

Men Earth Prayer Mistake Lord Fool Bears Tools Crowns Merciful Knaves Scourge

Author:Edward Rowland Sill

“No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal mildness and temperance there can be no continuance of friendship. Every man will have something to do for his friend, and something to bear with in him. The sober man only can do the first; and for the latter, patience is requisite. It is better for a man to depend on himself, than to be annoyed with either a madman or a fool.”

Men Firsts Can Do Fool Depends Friends Bears Faults Every Man Latter Sober Propose Annoyed Madmen Temperance Reciprocal Continuance Mildness

Author:Owen Feltham

“Live loath'd and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.”

Long Minutes Fool Bears Court Fortune Slave Knees Smooth End Times Caps Meek Destroyers Parasites Courteous Vapor Time Flies Affable

Book:THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.: CONTAINING, TIMON OF ATHENS. TITUS ANDRONICUS. MACBETH. C. MMARCIUS CORIOLANUS. VOLUME the EIGHTH

Source: THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.: CONTAINING, TIMON OF ATHENS. TITUS ANDRONICUS. MACBETH. C. MMARCIUS CORIOLANUS. VOLUME the EIGHTH

“Milk-livered man, That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs; Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning Thine honor from thy suffering; [that not know'st Fools do those villains pity who are punished Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum? France spreads his banners in our noiseless land, With plumed helm thy state begins to threat, Whilst thou, a moral fool, sits still and cries 'Alack, why does he so?']”

Knows Men Doe Stills States Done Eye Suffering Moral Land Cry Fool Bears Honor Threat Blow Spread Pity France Milk Villain Cowardice Cheeks Mischief Brows Banner Discerning Helm

Author:William Shakespeare

“You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.”

“I bear a burden that might well try Men that do all by rule, And what can I That am a wandering-witted fool But pray to God that He ease My great responsibilities?”

Men Trying Wells Might Faith Responsibility Fool Bears Praying Burden Wander Ease Praying To God Great Responsibility Try Me

Book:Later Poems

Source: Later Poems

“Every time that a man who is not an absolute fool presents you with a question he considers very problematic after giving it careful thought, distrust those quick answers that come to the mind of someone who has considered it only briefly or not at all. These answers are usually simplistic views lacking in consistency, which explain nothing, or which do not bear examination.”

Men Giving Mind Answers Views Fool Bears Absolutes Careful Lacking Consistency Distrust Examination

Book:St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence

Source: St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence

“She could not bear the thought. She simply could not bear the thought that she might somehow prove to her grandfather that her mother had indeed been a fool and her father had been a damned fool and that she was the damnedest fool of them all.”

Might Mother Father Fool Bears Prove Grandfather

Book:Ten Things I Love About You

Source: Ten Things I Love About You