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HELENA: Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
   Love can transpose to form and dignity.
   Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind;
   And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
   Nor hath Love’s mind of any judgment taste.
   Wings, and no eyes, figure unheedy haste.
   And therefore is Love said to be a child
   Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, sc. 1, ll. 238ff (1.1.238-245) (1605)

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Shakespeare, William - Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, sc. 1, ll. 238ff (1.1.238-245) (1605) | WIST Quotations

HELENA: Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love’s mind of any judgment taste. Wings, and no eyes, figure unheedy haste. And therefore is…

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atopoeia-o Jan 25

@zephyrotv Yeah the guy was armed so think, had the guy lived, the onus would have been on him to prove that the weapon had nothing to do with the ICE agent's firing shots.

Seems very cut+dry, unfortunately. Feel bad for his family they raised him and he's dead coz he wore a handgun to a demonstration #badjudgment

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Dec 4

A quotation from Josh Billings

Intelekt without judgement iz what ails about one halff the smart people in this world.

[Intellect without judgment is what ails about one half the smart people in this world.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1975-02 “Heliotropes” (1875 ed.)

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Josh Billings' Farmer's Allminax, 1975-02 "Heliotropes" (1875 ed.) - Billings, Josh | WIST Quotations

Intelekt without judgement iz what ails about one halff the smart people in this world. [Intellect without judgment is what ails about one half the smart people in this world.]

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!May 9, 2025

A quotation from Orwell

If there is a wrong thing to do, it will be done, infallibly. One has come to believe in that as if it were a law of nature.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Diary Entry (1941-05-18), "First War-Time Diary"

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WIST Quotations moves again!Aug 26, 2024

A quotation from Amiel, Henri-Frédéric:

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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
»

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https://wist.info/amiel-henri-frederic/5672/

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Journal entry (1856-12-17), Journal Intime (1882) [tr. Ward (1884)] - Amiel, Henri-Frédéric | WIST Quotations

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. [Qui veut voir parfaitement clair avant de se déterminer ne se détermine jamais. Qui n'accepte pas le regret n'accepte pas la vie.] (Source (French))

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WIST Quotations moves again!Jan 10, 2024

A quotation from La Bruyere, Jean de:

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It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues.

[C’est une grande misère que de n’avoir pas assez d’esprit pour bien parler, ni assez de jugement pour se taire.]
»

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https://wist.info/la-bruyere-jean-de/66098/

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The Characters [Les Caractères], ch. 5 "Of Society and Conversation [De la Société et de la Conversation]," § 18 (5.18) (1688) [tr. Van Laun (1885)] - La Bruyere, Jean de | WIST Quotations

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues. [C’est une grande misère que de n’avoir pas assez d’esprit pour bien parler, ni assez de jugement pour se taire.] (Source (French)). Alternate translations: 'Tis a sad thing…

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