Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.
Samuel Pepys
The physically fit can enjoy their vices.
Lord Percival
One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict -- girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.
We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.
Ian Percy
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle
Memory is the scribe of the soul.
It's best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken.
Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.
The constant dilemma of the information age is that our ability to gathera sea of data greatly exceeds the tools and techniques available to sort,extract, and apply the information we've collected.
Jeff Davidson
I said to my soulBe stillAnd wait without hopeFor hope would be hope for the wrong thingAnd wait without loveFor love would be love of the wrong thingThere is yet faithBut the faith and the hope and the loveAre all in the waitingAnd do not thinkFor you are not ready for thoughtSo the darkness shall be the lightAnd the stillnessThe dancing
TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, Four
You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you.
Brett Favre
With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I'm running out of chances.
I really believe this team has a lot of potential - whether it's this year or in years to come, I don't know.
It's the hand we're dealt. We've put ourselves in this position, and we've got to find a way to get out of it.
Yeah, maybe if we make that extra point we go into overtime ... But if I make that last throw, that's what Brett Favre is all about. ... When called upon, I expect to make those plays. So, yeah, I feel like I let this team down.
I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell.
I'd write over and over, I will not throw into coverage.
There wasn't a better teacher or mentor out there than Reggie White, on or off the field.
I played a long time, had a great career up to this point, and can walk away with my head as high as anyone else.
We're always trying to find ways to lower interceptions and stuff. My nature, I'm aggressive. I'll take shots, I'll take chances; therefore, you have mistakes.
Most obstacles are imaginary; the rest are only temporary.
Scott Sorrell
One of the most exciting and encouraging truths in life is that we can always become someone new. We never have to settle for who we are.
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.
E. M. Forster
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.
The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
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