To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
Have the courage to act instead of react.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
Man has his will, but woman has her way.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...
Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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