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Joseph Addison
It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
Jim Bishop
A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
John Locke
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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J. Edgar Hoover
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar.
J. F. Boyse
If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand.
J. Frank Dobie
The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
J. Frank Dobie
Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.
J. Frank Dobie, "A
The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
J. Gresham Machen
The Christian cannot be satisfied so long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of connection with Christianity. Christianity must pervade not merely all nations but also all of human thought.
J. Gustav White
One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God.
J. Hawes
He that cannot decidedly say, "No," when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.
J. Jacques, Questi
You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.
J. K. Galbraith
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
J. K. Rowling
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
J. K. Rowling
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
J. K. Rowling
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
J. K. Rowling
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. Rowling
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.
J. K. Rowling, Har
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. Rowling, Har
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J. K. Rowling, Har
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
J. K. Rowling, Har
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
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