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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which links us with read more
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
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.
It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.
It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there read more
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write read more
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.
One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity read more
One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
