Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away….
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It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he read more
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to read more
But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to care not for.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.
Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.
The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.
The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?.
