#follies

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

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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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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. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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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. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

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None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature. ↗

— Morris West

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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. ↗

— William S. Paley

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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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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. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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