But satire, ever moral, ever ...

But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.
But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.
 Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
 John Carlos

Quotes from the same author

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
 Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.
 Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
 Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last.
 Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
 Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux