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When there's a piano to be moved, don't reach for the stool.
Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
Nothing really known can continue to be acutely fascinating.
A frontier is never a place; it is a time and a way of life.
When all else is gone, God is left, and nothing changes Him.
Be not afraid of rowing slowly. Be afraid of standing still.
It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.
I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
Why go to the ends of the earth if you have nothing to give?
If ministry is not about compassion and passion, let it die.
Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.
There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.
There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.
He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.
Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth.
It is in the contrast of light and dark that design happens.
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.
I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.
There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.
There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.
Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.
There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.
My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.
It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.
Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.
I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.
I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.
Beware of any profession for which you must buy new clothes.
There's no hidden secrets going on in the Federal Reserve...
Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.
Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.
No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death
If it doesn't have siamese twins in a jar, it is not a fair.
Good things don't end in -eum; they end in -mania or -teria.
Sentimentality works by our seeing only what we want to see.
By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.