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In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. - The Books in My Life.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.
We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as read more
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
He that won't be counselled can't be helped.
He that won't be counselled can't be helped.
Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, read more
Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?