Favorite Quote
'Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this tell me how'
'Don't be wreckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with people that are wreckless with yours'
'Be careful whos' advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it'
'There's no certainty - only opportunity'
'dis-function is a function so i must be some kind of genius'
'Estudar sem pensar é um desperdicio, pensar sem estudar é perigoso' Confucius
'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves' w.shakespeare
'Truth gets lost in the glitter of one side and the apparent mundaneness of the other'
'Judgements are bound to be coloured by subjectivity'.
'Do what you can with what you have, where you are.' Teddy Roosevelt
'If I have seen further, it was by standing on the shoulders of giants' Isaac Newton
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Love, the most generous passion of the mind,
The softest refuge innocence can find,
The safe director of unguided youth,
Fraught with kind wishes, and secured by truth;
When I was married, fools were a la mode.
The men of wit were then held incommode,
Slow of belief, and fickle in desire,
Who, ere they'll be persuaded, must inquire
As if they came to spy, not to admire.
With searching wisdom, fatal to their ease,
They still find out why what may, should not please;
Nay, take themselves for injured when we dare
Make 'em think better of us than we are,
And if we hide our frailties from their sights,
Call us deceitful jilts and hypocrites.
They little guess, who at our arts are grieved,
The perfect joy of being well deceived;
Vain of his proper merit, he with ease
Believes we love him best who best can please.
On him our gross, dull, common flatteries pass,
Ever most joyful when most made an ass.
Nature's as lame in making a true fop
As a philosopher; the very top
And dignity of folly we attain
By studious search, and labor of the brain,
For wits are treated just like common whores:
First they're enjoyed, and then kicked out of doors.
The pleasure past, a threatening doubt remains
That frights th' enjoyer with succeeding pains.
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
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