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A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.
Things do not change, we do.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.
Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
We hate the kindness which we understand.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Time is but the stream I go a fishing in.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Few things are brought to a sucessful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
Cunning...is but the low mimic of wisdom.
To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
Few ever lived to a great age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.
The road goes ever on and on down fromthe door where it began. Now far ahead the road has gone and I must follow if I can. Pursuing it with weary feet until it joins some larger way, where many paths and errands meet -and whither then, I cannot say.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
For fast acting relief try slowing down.
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
I?m not in business to be loved, but I am in business.
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
There is nothing more difficult to carry out and more doubtful of success than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all who prosper by the old order.
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and forever.
Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
There has never been an intelligent person of the age of sixty who would consent to live his life over again. His or anyone else
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.
If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Man is the only man that blushes. Or needs to.
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it?and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again?and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods; it remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
When in doubt tell the truth.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.
There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untax
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?
There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend.
Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
When it comes to winning, you need the skill and the will.
To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts.
Ability lies in the mind and the heart. To tell your mind to limit your abilities a
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
No one ever injured their eyesight from looking on the bright side of things.
Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
Age isn't important unless you're a cheese.
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin forone dollar, and use it up in two weeks.
A chronic disposition to inquiry deprives domestic felines of vital qualities.
Cats are like Baptists. They raise hell but you can't catch them at it.
What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.
Cats aren't clean, they're just covered with cat spit.
Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.
There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.
A child is a gift from God. He is not an accident or a consequence.
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together.
What you see depends on what you're looking for.
More important than how we live is how we spend each day.
The only way to see a rainbow is to look through the rain.
Many people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

Things do not change, we do.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Time is but the stream I go a fishing in.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Few things are brought to a sucessful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

Cunning...is but the low mimic of wisdom.

To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

Few ever lived to a great age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.

The road goes ever on and on down fromthe door where it began. Now far ahead the road has gone and I must follow if I can. Pursuing it with weary feet until it joins some larger way, where many paths and errands meet -and whither then, I cannot say.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

For fast acting relief try slowing down.

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

I?m not in business to be loved, but I am in business.

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

There is nothing more difficult to carry out and more doubtful of success than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all who prosper by the old order.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and forever.

Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

There has never been an intelligent person of the age of sixty who would consent to live his life over again. His or anyone else

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Man is the only man that blushes. Or needs to.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it?and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again?and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods; it remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

When in doubt tell the truth.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untax

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend.

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

When it comes to winning, you need the skill and the will.

To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts.

Ability lies in the mind and the heart. To tell your mind to limit your abilities a

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

No one ever injured their eyesight from looking on the bright side of things.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Age isn't important unless you're a cheese.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin forone dollar, and use it up in two weeks.

A chronic disposition to inquiry deprives domestic felines of vital qualities.

Cats are like Baptists. They raise hell but you can't catch them at it.

What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.

Cats aren't clean, they're just covered with cat spit.

Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.

There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.

A child is a gift from God. He is not an accident or a consequence.

Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together.

What you see depends on what you're looking for.

More important than how we live is how we spend each day.

The only way to see a rainbow is to look through the rain.

Many people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.