The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
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The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first.
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Every man plays the fool once in his lif marry is playing the fool all one's life, but to marry is to playing the fool all one's life long.
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Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep: it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; 'Tis meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. 'Tis the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise-man even. There is only one thing that I dislike in sleep; 'Tis that it resembles death; there's very little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep.
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Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy.
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Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool.
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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
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But nothing satisfied the fool But my dear Mary Moore,...
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As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
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None are so busy as the fool and knave.
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The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
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The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
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Psalms 14:1:
For the director of music. Of David. Fools say in their hearts, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.
(NIV)
To the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David. THE [empty-headed] fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable deeds; there is none that does good or right. [Rom. 3:10.](AMP)
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
(KJV)
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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
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Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, -- which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- watch that basket.
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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
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He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.
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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.
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The wise man learns more from the fool than the fool learns from the wise man
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The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
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The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
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I am like the fool from the poem 'The fools prayer';
Because noone sees the bitter smile under the painted grin I wear.
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