WIST Quotations

Fuller, Thomas (1654) -- Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2146 (1727)

Dave — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:16:03 +0000

If thou commitest a Sin, because thou art wilfully Ignorant; the Wilfulness of thy Ignorance makes thy sin to be wilful.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2146 (1727)
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Shakespeare, William -- Winter’s Tale, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 310ff (1.2.310-325) (1611)

Dave — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:55:02 +0000

CAMILLO:My gracious lord,
I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful.
In every one of these no man is free,
But that his negligence, his folly, fear,
Among the infinite doings of the world,
Sometime puts forth. In your affairs, my lord,
If ever I were willful-negligent,
It was my folly; if industriously
I played the fool, it was my negligence,
Not weighing well the end; if ever fearful
To do a thing where I the issue doubted,
Whereof the execution did cry out
Against the non-performance, ’twas a fear
Which oft infects the wisest. These, my lord,
Are such allowed infirmities that honesty
Is never free of.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Winter’s Tale, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 310ff (1.2.310-325) (1611)
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Hood, Thomas -- “The Lady’s Dream,” st. 16 (1844)

Dave — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 03:53:51 +0000

But evil is wrought by want of Thought,
As well as want of Heart!

Thomas Hood (1799-1845) British humorist and poet
“The Lady’s Dream,” st. 16 (1844)
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First printed in Hood’s Magazine.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott -- The Great Gatsby, ch. 9 (1925)

Dave — Fri, 27 May 2016 19:51:38 +0000

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) American writer [Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald]
The Great Gatsby, ch. 9 (1925)