Aphorisms
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Art is born of humiliation.
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
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