I see no comfort in outliving one’s friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.
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Create Personalise WishesToo old to plant trees…
Take care that you never…
Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well.
18A Decalogue of Canons…
A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life:
1. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have it.
4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
6. We never repent of having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8. How much pain have cost us the evils which never have happened.
9. Take things always by their smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.
(letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, 1825)
I’m a great believer in…
Earth’s the right place…
I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence
I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
15When a friend calls to…
When a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk,
I don’t stand still and look around
On all the hills I haven’t hoed,
And shout from where I am, What is it?
No, not as there is a time to talk.
I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,
Blade-end up and five feet tall,
And plod: I go up to the stone wall
For a friendly visit.
Oh, give us pleasure in…
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.
Most of the change we…
You’re searching, Joe,…
You’re searching, Joe, for things that don’t exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings — there are no such things. There are only middles.
18In three words I can sum…
The world is filled with…
It is one of the most…
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
31The god of the cannibals…
The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
21Make your own Bible. Select…
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like the blast of triumph out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.
21All minds quote. Old and…
All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.
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