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Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another’s rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.
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Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasureits hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.
charlotte brontë— 1857 The Professor, ch.20.
What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to the original, for the conventional and thin which can be duplicated in many copies rather than the new and powerful, and for arid correctness and limitation of scope and method rather than for universal newness and beauty, wherever it may be seen.
Norbert Wiener— VIII. Role of the Intellectual and the Scientist. p.135
We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us...
leonardo da vinci— Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations., as translated by Edward MacCurdy
The hand of God never tires, nor are its movements aimless. It makes all things subservient to its designs, and, at every turn, disappoints the calculations of man, causing the most insignificant events to expand to the mightiest consequences, while those that have the appearance of mountains vanish into nothing.
john lanahan— P. 284. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
