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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have read more
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth read more
Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.
Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They read more
Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you. - Essays.
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you read more
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Adages.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Adages.
It's good to shut up sometimes.
It's good to shut up sometimes.
In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
