Waste/shortcomings

Famous quotes containing the words waste and/or shortcomings:

“Let him read what is proper to him, and not waste his memory on a crowd of mediocrities.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart’s history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)