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.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Politics have no relation to morals.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
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.
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