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Taleb, Nassim Nicholas -- The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, “Robustness and Antifragility” (2010)
https://wist.info/taleb-nassim-nicholas/72704/
Published: October 29, 2024 04:32
For the robust, an error is information; for the fragile, an error is an error.
Antrim, Minna -- Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions (1902)
https://wist.info/antrim-minna/72702/
Published: October 29, 2024 01:17
The drama of life begins with a wail and end with a sigh.
Jerome, Jerome K. -- Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), ch. 15 (1889)
https://wist.info/jerome-jerome-k/72697/
Published: October 28, 2024 21:46
It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of […]
Stevenson, Robert Louis -- Travels with a Donkey in the CĂ©vennes, Dedication to Sydney Colvin (1879)
https://wist.info/stevenson-robert-louis/72694/
Published: October 28, 2024 21:14
Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the friends of him who writes it. They alone take his meaning; they find private messages, assurances of love, and expressions of gratitude, dropped at every corner. The public is but a generous…
Arnot, William -- Laws from Heaven for Life on Earth: Illustrations of the Book of Proverbs, ch. 49 (1858)
https://wist.info/arnot-william/72692/
Published: October 28, 2024 21:05
She may safely wear elegant garments, who in character and bearing is elegant without their aid. If honour be your clothing, the suit will last a life-time, but if clothing be your honour, it will soon be worn thread-bare. Commentary on Proverbs 31:25:…
Hand, Learned -- United States v. Coplon, 185 F.2d 629 (2d Cir. 1950) [majority opinion]
https://wist.info/hand-learned/72687/
Published: October 25, 2024 21:13
All governments, democracies as well as autocracies, believe that those they seek to punish are guilty; the impediment of constitutional barriers are galling to all governments when they prevent the consummation of that just purpose. But those barriers…
Millay, Edna St. Vincent -- Fatal Interview: Sonnets, No. 30 (1931)
https://wist.info/millay-edna-st-vincent/72683/
Published: October 25, 2024 20:48
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again; Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the…
Johnson, Lyndon -- Speech (1965-01-20), Inaugural Address, Washington, D. C.
https://wist.info/johnson-lyndon/72673/
Published: October 25, 2024 17:45
In a land of great wealth, families must not live in hopeless poverty. In a land rich in harvest, children just must not go hungry. In a land of healing miracles, neighbors must not suffer and die untended. In a great land of learning and scholars, young…
Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 865 (1640 ed.)
https://wist.info/herbert-george/72669/
Published: October 25, 2024 14:23
The Rich knowes not who is his friend.
Thoreau, Henry David -- Letter (1848-03-27) to Harrison Blake
https://wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/72667/
Published: October 25, 2024 14:02
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. Collected in F. B. Sanborn, ed.,…
Austen, Jane -- Letter to Anna Austen (1814-09-28)
https://wist.info/austen-jane/72665/
Published: October 24, 2024 21:41
The Webbs are really gone! When I saw the waggons at the door, and thought of all the trouble they must have in moving, I began to reproach myself for not having liked them better, but since the waggons have disappeared my conscience has been closed again,…
McLaughlin, Mignon -- The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 3 (1963)
https://wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/72663/
Published: October 24, 2024 21:10
The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
Roosevelt, Theodore -- Speech (1910-04-23), “Citizenship in a Republic [The Man in the Arena],” Sorbonne, Paris
https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/72661/
Published: October 24, 2024 21:02
If the man works for evil, then the more successful he is the more he should be despised and condemned by all upright and farseeing men. To judge a man merely by success is an abhorrent wrong; and if the people at large habitually so judge men, if they…
Carlyle, Thomas -- Past and Present, Book 2, ch. 8 “Unworking Aristocracy” (1843)
https://wist.info/carlyle-thomas/72659/
Published: October 24, 2024 20:27
In a valiant suffering for others, not in a slothful making others suffer for us, did nobleness ever lie.
Billings, Josh -- Josh Billings on Ice, and Other Things, ch. 61 “Milk, Whiskee and Beer” (1868)
https://wist.info/billings-josh/72657/
Published: October 24, 2024 20:13
But since whiskee haz got into this world, I don’t think it kan be got out, enny more than small pox kan, but it kan be made komparitively harmless, in the same way, and only in the same way, and that iz by constant vaccination. [But since whiskey has…
Thoreau, Henry David -- A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, “Wednesday” (1849)
https://wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/72653/
Published: October 24, 2024 19:50
This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
Byron, George Gordon, Lord -- Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 2, st. 98 (1812)
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Published: October 23, 2024 23:08
What is the worst of woes that wait on Age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from Life’s page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
King, Laurie R. -- The Game [O’Hara] (2004)
https://wist.info/king-laurie-r/72642/
Published: October 23, 2024 21:26
Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.
Parker, Dorothy -- Interview (1956, Summer), “The Art of Fiction, No. 13,” by Marion Capron, The Paris Review, Issue 13
https://wist.info/parker-dorothy/72637/
Published: October 23, 2024 20:54
As for me, I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have the money. I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it. Collected in…
Lecture (1804-1806), Moral Philosophy, No. 9 “On the Conduct of the Understanding,” Royal Institution, London
https://wist.info/smith-sydney/72622/
Published: October 22, 2024 17:13
It is a very wise rule in the conduct of the understanding, to acquire early a correct notion of your own peculiar constitution of mind, and to become well acquainted, as a physician would say, with your idiosyncrasy. Are you an acute man, and see sharply…
“Justice,” The Cynic’s Word Book (1906)
https://wist.info/bierce-ambrose/72620/
Published: October 22, 2024 16:12
JUSTICE, n. A commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes, and personal service. Included in The Devil’s Dictionary (1911). Originally published in the “Devil’s Dictionary”…