—François de La Rochefoucauld
Showing posts with label confidence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label confidence. Show all posts
Monday, November 11, 2019
Monday, January 16, 2017
Post #2251
Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all.
—Johann Kaspar Lavater
—Johann Kaspar Lavater
Thursday, June 16, 2016
Post #2099
All confidence is dangerous unless it is complete; there are few circumstances in which it is not better either to hide all or to tell all.
—Jean de La Bruyère
—Jean de La Bruyère
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Monday, April 14, 2014
Post #1521
People forget how little they know, when they grow confident upon any present state of things.
—Robert South
—Robert South
Monday, February 18, 2013
Friday, August 31, 2012
Post #1048
You must be master and win, or serve and lose, grieve or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Post #717
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
—Miles Davis
—Miles Davis
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Post #707
A capital ship for an ocean trip
Was the Walloping Window Blind -
No gale that blew dimayed her crew
Or troubled the Captain's mind.
The man at the wheel was taught to feel
Contempt for the wildest blow.
And it often appeared, when the weather had cleared,
That he'd been in his bunk below.
—Charles Edward Carryl
Was the Walloping Window Blind -
No gale that blew dimayed her crew
Or troubled the Captain's mind.
The man at the wheel was taught to feel
Contempt for the wildest blow.
And it often appeared, when the weather had cleared,
That he'd been in his bunk below.
—Charles Edward Carryl
Thursday, September 08, 2011
Monday, October 04, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Post #136
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
—Francis Bacon
—Francis Bacon
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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