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Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break read more
Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch -what makes read more
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch -what makes you go beyond the norm.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court.
Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court.
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us read more
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.
If I'd known I was gonna live this long. I'd have taken better care of myself. [Eubie Blake At Age read more
If I'd known I was gonna live this long. I'd have taken better care of myself. [Eubie Blake At Age 100].
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest read more
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.