Aphorisms
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We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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.
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