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.
BILL VAUGHANThe 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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Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. Tho’the way be long let your heart be strong, Keep right on round the bend. T
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Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
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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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The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.
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Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
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Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
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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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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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On the one hand, it’s common sense it’s hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.
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