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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
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.
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.
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result read more
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old read more
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
