“Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.”
Donald Rumsfeld
“'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“All in the dark we grope along,And if we go amissWe learn at least which path is wrong,And there is gain in this.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved”
George Crabbe
“I'll not willingly offend, Nor be easily offended; What's amiss I'll strive to mend, And endure what can't be mended”
Isaac Watts
“A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.”
William Congreve
“Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss”
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