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“There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.”

Way Humans Hours Wealth Fool Thousand Waste Misery Boards Sickness Disgusting Superfluous One Hour Flatterer

Book:John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice

Source: John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice

“It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ's time-and long before that-God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools.”

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.”

Ifs Years May Age Fool Thousand Clean Wit Thousand Years Wipe Slate

Book:King of Thorns

Source: King of Thorns

“Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.”

Years Art Age Nature Fool Thousand Six Idle Thousand Years Mushrooms Antiques

Book:Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books

Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books

“A thousand fools believe a lie, and it's good as truth.”

Believe Lying Fool Thousand

Book:A Door Into Ocean

Source: A Door Into Ocean

“When I have a difficult subject before me - when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools - I prefer to address myself to the one man, and to take no notice whatever of the condemnation of the multitude; I prefer to extricate that intelligent man from his embarrassment and show him the cause of his perplexity, so that he may attain perfection and be at peace.”

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools. You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules. But you can't take a mother and give her back her son. What kind of freedom is bought with a gun? People like to build their prison walls when they're afraid to look inside... a thousand points of light are the muzzle flashes in the night. And the freedoms you profess to hold won't bring the dead back from the cold.”

People Giving Looks Kind Book Light Mother Night Son Wall Fool Cold Thousand Gun Prison Ships Desert Flash Sail Moses Muzzle Points Of Light Prison Walls

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.”

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.”

Sometimes Effort Poverty Pride Fool Thousand Stress Hardship Climbing Humiliation Petty

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.”

Men Forget Wise Fool Thousand Ten Immortality Obscurity

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to.”

Fighting Fool Thousand

Book:Lucky

Source: Lucky

“But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They’re Caesar’s praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, ‘Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.’ Most of us can’t rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven’t time, money or that many friends. The things you’re looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.”

Source: Fahrenheit 451