"Overestimate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Reeve,—I think you in nowise overestimate the value of Meadows Taylor's life and work in India, and I cordially recognise the exceptional claims of the two ladies, on whose behalf you have written to me, to the grant which I regret to hear they require. Their case is rather a difficult one to deal with, ...
— Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. - In Two Volumes. VOL. II. • John Knox Laughton
... from the question of a sterile abnegation, we must foresee that it may be important not to overestimate one's individual interests, to the visible ...
— Common Sense - - Subtitle: How To Exercise It • Yoritomo-Tashi
... to appreciate what others do, and especially to overestimate my desultory efforts, that I cannot be surprised at your very kind and flattering remarks on my papers. I am glad, however, that you have made a few critical observations (and am only sorry that you were not well enough to make more), as ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin
... cannot but admire the real statesman as the vastest human Poetry. Ever to look beyond the present moment, to foresee the ways of Destiny, to care so little for power that he only retains it because he is conscious of his usefulness, while he does not overestimate his strength; ever to lay aside all personal feeling and low ambitions, so that he may always be master of his faculties, and foresee, will, and act without ceasing; to compel himself to be just and impartial, to keep order on a large ...
— The Country Doctor • Honore de Balzac
... overestimate my service to him, possibly. I dare say the boat could have picked him up in ...
— The Lady of the Aroostook • W. D. Howells
... of our civilization. Its supremacy and power it is impossible to overestimate; it enters every avenue of development, and it may be set down as the prime factor in the world's progress. Its utility and its universality are hand in hand, whether in the magnificent iron steamship of the ocean, the network of iron rail upon land, the electric gossamer of the air, or ...
— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XXI., No. 531, March 6, 1886 • Various |
