It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed.
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
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