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Updated: May 15, 2025
It is as if we ignored a wistful, over-confident creature who walked through our city streets calling out, "I am the spirit of Youth! With me, all things are possible!"
After two days in court, one begins to believe that one can tell an honest man from a liar by looking at him. Probably one is over-confident. As a rule, there is nothing that offends us more than a new kind of money. We felt humiliated in the early days of the war when we were no longer paid in heavy little discs of gold, and had to accept paper pounds and ten-shillingses.
Then she might have remembered that in all the North the great, busy, bustling, over-confident, giantly Great-heart of the continent there is not to be found a single "Northern" hotel, steamer, railway, stage-coach, bar-room, restaurant, school, university, school-book, or any other "Northern" institution. The word "Northern" is no master-key to patronage or approval.
On this charge he summoned them before him at Drogheda in the following February. Kildare wisely fled to England, where he pleaded his innocence successfully with the King. But Desmond and Plunkett, over-confident of their own influence, repaired to Drogheda, were tried, condemned, and beheaded. Their execution took place on the 15th day of February, 1467.
Poor Stephen's confidence doubtless began to leave him the following day, when his turquoises and women were taken from him, and he found himself a prisoner without food or drink. As much afraid now as he had been over-confident before, he endeavored, during the early morning hours, to escape, but was overtaken and killed, together with some of his followers.
Alfred Russel Wallace called the nineteenth, has made us perhaps over-confident and forgetful of the ruins of great cities and confident prides of the past that litter the world, and here I will write about the other alternative, of the progressive process "hitting something," and smashing. There are two chief things in modern life that impress me as dangerous and incalculable.
And, similarly, the aspirant who finds that his people never want to say more than he can allow them to say that they never rush headlong into blind alleys, or do things that upset the balance of the play and have to be resolutely undone that aspirant will do well not to be over-confident of his dramatic calling and election.
We speak often with amusement, sometimes with distaste and uneasiness, of men who "have no sense of humor," who take themselves too seriously, who are intense, self-absorbed, over-confident in matters of opinion, or else go plumed with conceit, proud of we cannot tell what, enjoying, appreciating, thinking of nothing so much as themselves.
He shook hands with the Caterpillar, and said, with a groan, that he had to take the first ball. "Keep cool," said the Caterpillar. "The bowling's weak; I have it from Cosmo Kinloch. They're in a precious funk." "So am I," said the Duffer. "But you're a bowler," said Desmond. "If I get out first ball, I shall cut my throat." But Caesar looked alert, cool, and neither under- nor over-confident.
But if Thirteen is not over-confident of the discovery which he says he has to-day perfected, the means to deal just such a blow is ready to our hands.... Thirteen?" A nod and gracious smile invited that one to speak.
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