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Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.


Maria Edgeworth


#highest #most #never #perilous #point

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.


Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#danger #him #idleness #intercourse #into

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.


Woodrow Wilson


#branch #education #every #given #giving

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.


David McCullough


#history #navigation #perilous #times #way

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.


Ambrose Bierce


#emergency #his #legs #perilous #thinks

This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.


Jon Voight


#before #country #era #ever #every

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.


John Grierson


#conflicting #happens #important #more #often

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.


Thomas Mann


#also #beauty #birth #gives #opposite

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.


Confucius


#learning #lost #perilous #thought #without

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.


Elizabeth I


#hand #harm #head #perilous #strength