To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life.
Ben Sweetland
One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.
Madame Swetchine
We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
We are rich only through what we give; and poor only through we refuse and keep.
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
Repentance is accepted remorse.
Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
Youth should be a savings bank.
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan Swift
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it.
The Talmud
The burden is equal to the horse's strength.
Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
Who is wise? One who learns from all.
The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.
There is no index so sure as the voice.
Tancred
During a very busy life I have often been asked, How did you manage to do it all? The answer is very simple. It is because I did everything promptly.
Richard Tangye
Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.
Leonidas of Tarentum
None of us really pushes hard enough.
Fran Tarkenton
Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.
People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
Booth Tarkington
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people.
Savielly Tartakower
An essential condition of listening to God is that the mind should not be distracted by thoughts of resentment, ill-temper, hatred or vengeance, all of which are comprised in the general term, the wrath of man.
R. V. G. Tasker
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