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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good read more
For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.
Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.
Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.
A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.
A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.
Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and read more
Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up read more
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. - The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647.
Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs
in your heart, the beauty that forms in your read more
Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs
in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that
drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful
conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to
them, your world will at last be built.
The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies,
prejudices, and false opinions he had read more
The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies,
prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.
