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爱是永不止息
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One need only grow old to become gentler in one's judgments. I see no fault committed which I could not have committed myself.
Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
It is much easier to recognize error than to find truth; for error lies on the surface and may be overcome ; but truth lies in the depths, and to search for it is not given to every one.
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.
Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.
Whenever I hear people talking about "liberal ideas," I am always astonded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive,and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Nothing is worth more than this day.
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. 哈哈
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
***reading this in different period of our lives, we feel differently and thus we realize we have grown. thanks for sharing. this is awesome