“Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.”
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“Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.”
“Evil is whatever distracts. ”
“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.”
“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ”
“Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth”
“Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer”
“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object”
“Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.”
“Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear”
“Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever”
“Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven”
“If moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime”
“The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny”
“The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done”
“I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment”
“It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth”
“If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender”
“The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat”
“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else”
“In sorrow he learned this truth: Though one may return to the place of his birth, he cannot go back to his youth”