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Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: It's all small stuff.
Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: It's all small stuff.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage.
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the read more
The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.
You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to read more
You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that's a disgrace.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to read more
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But read more
Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: "It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... ".
No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.
No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.