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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does read more
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the read more
Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.
I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have read more
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
Man's extremity is God's opportunity.