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Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.
Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.
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.
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is read more
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
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.
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be read more
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, "The Beryl Coronet".
Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. -Walt Whitman.
Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. -Walt Whitman.
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there read more
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going read more
It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.
