Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes it obstructs your vision.

Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes it obstructs your vision.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door that read more

When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has
opened for us.

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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of
knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of
knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not
one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage read more

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not
one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on
his ideas, to take a calculated risk-and to act.

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life,
you'll find it's easy to slip into read more

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life,
you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of
life that's far below what you deserve.

If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator read more

If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.