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If you don't ask, you don't get.
If you don't ask, you don't get.
We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
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.
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.
Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, read more
Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.
The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing. -Unknown.
The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing. -Unknown.
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to read more
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze read more
The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze that rustles the trees rustles him too.
