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Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Idleness is only the refuge of weakminds, and the holiday of fools. — Philip Dormer Stanhope
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
I recommend you take care of the minutes: for hours take care of themselves
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Stop judging yourself constantly.It's exactly what prevents you from achieving amazing things — Denis Gorce-Bourge
Common sense is the best sense I know of
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
But a young man should be ambitious to shine, and excel; alert, active, and indefatigable in the means of doing it.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give advice, because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
A pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Secret thoughts and an open countenance will take you safely the world over
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Advice is seldom welcome and those who need it the most like it the least.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Every process must by law decay.
— Anthony Doerr
Keep your own secret, and get out other people's.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt; and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
The skies make no special dispensation for Magi, boy, they piss on everyone the same.
— Joe Abercrombie
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
I tried to be diplomatic, but mostly I just lied a lot.
— Stephenie Meyer
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?
— Maureen O'Hara
There's many a man who never tells his adventures, for he can't hope to be believed.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
— Victoria Jackson