Perils Quotes
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It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
Oscar Wilde -
I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.
Rachel Kushner
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Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders of the Revolutionary generation. Familiar as the founders were with old Europe . . . they understood why the accumulation of inherited wealth led to inequities and imbalances that inevitably corrupted any system of government.
Joe Conason -
Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.
Francis Bacon -
The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
Thomas A. Edison -
Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.
Baruch Spinoza -
Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
Anthony Trollope