Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves.
Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.
Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.