Aphorisms
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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Never complain and never explain.
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Youth is a blunder, Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance.
There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
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