"Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom."

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Source : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.34, Lulu Press, Inc

Coventry Patmore

#Wise Quotes #Adversity Quotes #Evil Quotes

“Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.”
“The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justified by a superficial view.”

Source : Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”
“The moment clients realize that revisions are not an all-you-can-eat buffet, suddenly they realize they are not hungry.”
“Marriage. Don't be pressured into it. Is the fear of loneliness really greater than the fear of bondage?”
“The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the profit and delight of society? Yet I am sensible that a man may be too invariably wise, learned, or witty to be agreeable; and I take the reason of this to be, that pleasure cannot be bestowed by the simple and unmixed exertion of any one faculty or accomplishment.”
“I want to talk to you and be random with you and be ridiculous with you.”
“I'm going to give the people their money's worth...true sports entertainment for their dollar. I'm the undefeated IBF Light Heavyweight World Champion making my fifth title defense. The crowd will be with me because everybody wants to be with a winner.”
“If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives.”

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