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We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the
process by which results are arrived at.
We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the
process by which results are arrived at.
Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's
judgment.
Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's
judgment.
Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly
deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious read more
Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly
deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious of preferments in
the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their
skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their
secrets.
So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.
So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.
With thumb turned.
[Lat., Verso pollice.]
With thumb turned.
[Lat., Verso pollice.]
'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others
judge us by what we have already read more
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others
judge us by what we have already done.
People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.
People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.
What is there that you enter upon so favorably as not to repent
of the undertaking and the accomplishment read more
What is there that you enter upon so favorably as not to repent
of the undertaking and the accomplishment of your wish?
[Lat., Quid tam dextro pede concipis ut te conatus non poeniteat
votique peracti?]