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The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The read more
You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.
Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but read more
Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation read more
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.
Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, read more
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may read more
The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
To love another person is to see the face of God.