Time heals what reason cannot. Great short quote and quotation by: Seneca , Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC – 65 AD)
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. Great short quote and quotation by: Thomas Paine , US patriot & political philosopher (1737 – 1809)
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind. Great short quote and quotation by: Tillotson ,
To be possessed is an admirable reason for possessing. Great short quote and quotation by: Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night ,
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. Great short quote and quotation by: Ralph Waldo Emerson , US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. Great short quote and quotation by: Friedrich Nietzsche , German philosopher (1844 – 1900)
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Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason. Great short quote and quotation by: Francois De La Rochefoucauld , French author & moralist (1613 – 1680)
Vanity is the quicksand of reason. Great short quote and quotation by: George Sands ,
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. Great short quote and quotation by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)
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William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects […]
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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. Great short quote and quotation by: Oliver Wendell […]
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