Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
BILL VAUGHANRemembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.
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It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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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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Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
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God wants us along for the victory, but it is His fight.
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Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn”t be seen dead at
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Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
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Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
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Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
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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 groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
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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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Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.
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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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