“Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them”
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“Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them”
“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal”
“Change in all things is sweet”
“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator”
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress”
“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. ”
“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom ”
“Things do not change; we change”
“Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.”
“In fair weather prepare for foul”
“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse”
“It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else”
“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. ”
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be”
“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”
“Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life”
“Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing ”
“You have not converted a man because you have silenced him”
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it”
“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”