The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
We should begin to remind people they are always after your money and if you are on something around average earnings you really don't have that spare capacity to pay for all these follies that Labour keep spending their money on.
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
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