You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
BILL VAUGHANIf the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.
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There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere.
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Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.
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How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
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The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
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Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind’s and God’s.
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What they’ll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they’ll vomit, and they’ll come back and eat their body weight again. And they’ll vomit. And they’ll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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If you think that one individual can’t make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
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The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn’t matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
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There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
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Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
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Your thoughts are making you.
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In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
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Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then … pick out his brains.
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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
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Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
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Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
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There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.
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The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
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The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
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I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
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