Folly Quotes
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To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly.
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But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly.
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Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.
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He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
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Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
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It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.
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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.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
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She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so.
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Anger without power is folly.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.
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The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.
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The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
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Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
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Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.
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Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
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Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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Folly ends where genuine hope begins.
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Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.
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Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
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O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.
