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“Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in nature, he is subject to its laws, he can not break free, he can not leave even in thought; it is in vain that his spirit wants to soar beyond the bounds of the visible world, he is always forced to return.”

Men World Want Giving Law Science Spirit Nature Born Imagination Natural Break Subjects Fool Return Giving Up Bounds Vain Visible Can Not Soar

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.”

Play Spirit Time Wise Fool Clouds Mock

Author:William Shakespeare

“Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!”

Self Spirit Social Christianity Fool Cells One Time Alas Bigots Knaves

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Avoid the politic, the factious fool, The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave; The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason, Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal, And mutiny the dictates of his spirit.”

Reason Spirit Sin Talking Fool Busy Loud Smooth Zeal Rogues Knaves Quaint Mutiny

Author:Thomas Otway

“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

“God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden is all but intolerable, and the things that I have to do are just as much as the human spirit can carry.”

Knows Men Humans States Pain Spirit United United States Fool Burden Presidency Human Spirit Segregation God Knows

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson