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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging read more
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely read more
It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.
Good questions outrank easy answers.
Good questions outrank easy answers.
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how read more
Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You read more
What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning -- and some of them many times over -- what do you find? That you can swim? Well -- life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
