https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:58:57 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/joubert-joseph/34841/ https://wist.info/joubert-joseph/34841/#respond Fri, 19 Aug 2016 23:38:55 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=34841 Be charitable and indulgent to every one but yourself.

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
(Attributed)

Frequently attributed to Joubert, but with no citation from his works. Earliest quoted in Maturin M. Ballou, ed., Treasury of Thought (1884 ed.).

Sometimes given "but thyself." ]]> https://wist.info/joubert-joseph/34841/feed/ 0 34841 https://wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/152/ https://wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/152/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=152 Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Prudence,” Essays: First Series, No. 7

Based on a lecture (winter 1837-1838), Boston, the seventh in his course on "Human Culture." ]]> https://wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/152/feed/ 0 152