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While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.
It is well not to lend too easy an ear to accusations.
Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.
The eye strays not while under the guidance of reason.
A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.
The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.
There is no safety in regaining the favor of an enemy.
No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.
A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.
Would you be known by everybody? Then you know nobody.
Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.
We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
Autumn rain, autumn wind, they make one die of sorrow.
You are not my nursemaid. Remember, I am rescuing you.
bite me. oh wait, you can't from way out there." - eve
Italy in the Seventies seems like a fascinating place.
I just don't get men. Mind you, I don't get me either.
I never remember nice dreams; only the bad ones stick.
Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.
If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.
Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day.
When you're older you want to learn from other people.
Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.
Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.
What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book.
He who has ceased to pray has lost a great friendship.
I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age.
Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.
I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.
In the best atheist sense of the word, I feel blessed.
Only the unity of all can bring the well-being of all.
A toast to the weapons of war, may they rust in peace.
I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.
As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.
I am trying to keep growing and improving as a writer.
There is always time enough in a day to do God's will.
The more I know you, the more I want to know you more.
Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.
I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year
No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.