A Quote by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
English - Novelist
August 14, 1802 - October 15, 1838

love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit

William Shakespeare

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Helen Rowland

It is not those who commit the least faults who are the most holy, but those who have the greatest courage, the greatest generosity, the greatest love, who make the boldest efforts to overcome themselves, and are not immediately apprehensive about tripping.

Saint Francis de Sales

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

Mary Astell

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

Izaak Walton

The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself; the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

Charles Caleb Colton

Nature does not hesitate to interfere with me. So I do not hesitate to tamper with it.

Henry Mitchell

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

Calvin Coolidge

Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.

George Bernard Shaw

Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.

Stephen Covey

Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.

Jean de La Fontaine

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