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«Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved»
Author: George Crabbe (Writer) | About: Love | Keywords: amiss, be amiss
«I'll not willingly offend, Nor be easily offended; What's amiss I'll strive to mend, And endure what can't be mended»
Author: Isaac Watts | Keywords: be amiss, mend, mended, offend, offended, willingly
«Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.»
Author: Donald Rumsfeld | About: Advice | Keywords: advisor, advisors, amiss, be amiss, missing, proposed
«All in the dark we grope along,And if we go amissWe learn at least which path is wrong,And there is gain in this.»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox | Keywords: all in, amiss, be amiss, grope, groped, grope for, groping, In The Dark, path of least, The Dark
«A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.»
Author: William Congreve | Keywords: allure, allured, allures, alluring, amiss, be amiss, disdain, disdained, disdains, scorn
«But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? / And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: amiss, answering, be amiss, condemnation, justly, rebuked, This Man
«He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss»
Author: John Locke (Philosopher) | About: Judgement | Keywords: acquit, acquits, acquitted, amiss, be amiss, informing, Judges, judging, utmost
«I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | About: Quotations | Keywords: amiss, applied, aptly, be amiss, discharged, discharges, discharging, hit-or-miss, insipid, proverb, reasonably, renders, Right or Wrong, vulgar
«'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: amiss, asides, be amiss, book, confidences, ear, finds, Good Book, head, hidden, meant, passages, read, reader, seem, Tis
«Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: be amiss, curst, eloquent, licence, Martial, taunt, taunting, thrice, witty
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