“Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous ”
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“Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous ”
“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves ”
“One forgives to the degree that one loves ”
“Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.”
“Fashions have done more harm than revolutions”
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable”
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs”
“A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit”
“Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.”
“Politics are a very unsatisfactory game”
“If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world”
“There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?”
“May you see God's light on the path ahead when the road you walk is dark. May you always hear, even in your hour of sorrow, the gentle singing of the lark. When times are hard may hardness never turn your heart to stone, may you always remember when the shadows fall— you do not walk alone”
“They who sow the wind shall reap the typhoon”
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places”
“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
“Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable”
“Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be”
“You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs”
“The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time”