Helen Keller Quotes
Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.
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It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
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Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.
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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
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Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
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Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
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If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.
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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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Please. Don’t switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don’t express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me.
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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.
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Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.
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Attempting to build a language wall around Quebec is precisely the wrong policy to follow. It will keep out of Quebec exactly what we need to attract by way of talent and capital; it will drive our best - francophones as well as allophones and anglophones, with their talents and capital - to leave Quebec.
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Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.
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It's safe to tell a secret to one, Risky to tell it to two. To tell it to three is thoughtless folly, Everyone else will know.
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Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
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Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
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Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.
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Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.
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Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.
