"Misguide" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... surely, the truths of revealed religion, whether accepted upon authority or upon the evidence of their own experience. The realm of spiritual and moral reality: there, they felt, they were on firm ground. Nature was a realm unknown; but they had analogy to guide, or, rather, misguide them. Nevertheless if, as we know, it misguided, this was not, I think, because the mystical doctrine of the correspondence between the spiritual and the natural is unsound, but because these ancient seekers into Nature's secrets knew so little, and so ...
— Bygone Beliefs • H. Stanley Redgrove
... actions did my anger move, It cannot rob thee of a mother's love. Why shouldst thou grieve? Grief seldom joined with blooming youth is seen; Can sorrow be where knowledge scarce has been? Fortune does well for heedless youth provide, But wisdom does unlucky age misguide; Cares are the train of present power and state, But hope lives best that on himself does wait: O happiest fortune if well understood, The certain ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Vol. II • Edited by Walter Scott |
