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“Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.”

Ends Wish Prayer Folly Grants Hinder

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“Children who wish to become good and great men or good and noble women, should try to know well all the people whom they meet. Thus they will find that there is no one who has not much of good; and when they see some great folly, or some meanness, or some cowardice, or some fault or weakness in another person, they should examine themselves carefully. Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves - although perhaps it does not come out in the same way - and then they must try to conquer that fault.”

People Knows Men Way Should Trying Wells Children Persons Doe Wish Weakness Faults Noble Conquer Folly Great Men Cowardice Meanness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)

“Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.”

Seems Wish Wise Fool Foolish Folly

Author:Quintilian

“Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions we have, and those which we have not, and do not even wish for. We envy the greatest qualities and every trifling advantage. We envy the most ridiculous appearance or affectation of superiority. We envy folly and conceit; nay, we go so far as to envy whatever confers distinction of notoriety, even vice and infamy.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.”