Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.

Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.

Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
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Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
and things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art; to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some read more

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.