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“Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.”

Turns Mines Shining Vices Folly Satire Pale Purple Peruvians

Book:The Poems of Charles Churchill ...

Source: The Poems of Charles Churchill ...

“The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked.”

Has Beens Turns Rocks Misery Vices Newspapers Burning Folly Warning Multitudes Beacons Admonition

Author:Thomas Hartwell Horne

“It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.”

Men Turns Dark Pleasure Missing Bed Folly Hateful

Book:The Complete Euripides Volume V: Medea and Other Plays

Source: The Complete Euripides Volume V: Medea and Other Plays

“A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life, and swagger away his own enjoyments; and not to enlarge upon not folly, not to mention the injustice of such a behavior, it is always the sign of a little, unbenevolent temper. It is disease and discredit all over, and there is no more greatness in it, than in the swelling of a dropsy.”

Men Littles Doe Play Turns Greatness Blessing Disease Behavior Injustice Enjoyment Arrogance Folly Temper Sovereign Blast Paramount Swagger Discredit Swelling

Author:Jeremy Collier

“The Church demonstrated the falsity and folly of Darwin's theories by showing that they contradicted the Mosaic account of creation, and now that the theories of Darwin having been fairly established, the Church says that the Mosaic account is true because it is in harmony with Darwin. Now, if it should turn out that Darwin was mistaken, what then?”

Ifs Should Turns Church Atheism Creation Theory Accounts Harmony Positive Atheism Folly Mistaken Mosaics Falsity

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.”

Men Wells Turns Worship Folly Casting

Author:Sophocles