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War is always a professional enterprise; despair is left to amateurs.
Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes.
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.
Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.
To see the future you have to travel on the rough edge of experience.
You know you're screwed when a Western doctor recommends acupuncture.
New weapons require new tactics. Never put new wine into old bottles.
The faster you get back to people, the less brilliant you have to be.
If lips and life do not agree, the testimony will not amount to much.
We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government
He listens equally to the prayers of the believer and the unbeliever.
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it.
Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.
We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.
The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter
The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm.
One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.
It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever.
To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.
Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic.
Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.
You may have to live in a crowd, but you do not have to live like it.
Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.
For each inclosed spirit is a star Enlightening his own little sphere
Early, as well as late, Rise with the sun, and set in the same bowers
Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.
Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.
Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.
Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.
I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code.
I could eat black walnut all the time, it's not a flavor of the week!
I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver.
If there's a heaven, it's a cold place. A dark place. A lonely place.
It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
Canada? Why would I want to leave America just to visit America, Jr.?
To be a great nation and a great people, you have to do great things.
Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender.
Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.
What is generally termed reality is, to be precise, a frothy nothing.
One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.
All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market.