“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise”
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“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise”
“It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best to at least rearrange their prejudices once in a while”
“Children use the fist until they are of the age to use the brain”
“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love”
“It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late”
“Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked”
“I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on”
“When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something”
“Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same”
“The only fault's with time; all men become good creatures: but so slow!”
“We mortals cross the ocean of this world each in his average cabin of a life”
“Progress is the law of life, man is not man as yet”
“For life, with all its yields of joy and woe, and hope and fear, believe the aged friend, is just a chance o' the prize of learning love”
“The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes”
“The same vices that are gross and insupportable in others we do not notice in ourselves”
“There are only two ways of getting on in the world either by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others”
“You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy”
“Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something”
“I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line”
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do”