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Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.
Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.
One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how read more
Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.
Keep your face towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.
Keep your face towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
The most wonderfully complex fictional character is much less complicated than the most boring actual person.
The most wonderfully complex fictional character is much less complicated than the most boring actual person.
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
