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On our way to a fire, are we?
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. He who denies all, confesses all. I've never been an intellectual but I have this look. We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first. All art is quite useless.Change yourself, change your fortunes.Be smart, be intelligent and be informed. Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind. Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you. Never ask a favor of someone till they have had their dinner.Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish. I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. Destiny is something men select women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering. The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity. It is a weakness of your human nature to hate those whom you have wronged. Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. The unexamined life is not worth living. For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required. And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say. Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them. The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit. It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it. There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear. A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. |
