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People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true
Our life is made by the death of others
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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