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.
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Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, And therein stay. Look not through the sheltering bars Upon tomorrow; God will help thee bear what comes of joy and sorrow.
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a read more
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in read more
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.
There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.
Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.
Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more read more
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.
Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
