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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.
Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.
It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!
When life gets you down, just remember these three words of wisdom. "Bonk!", "Zap!", and "Yowsers!"
Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.
Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum.
When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
To cognize the Divine Essence - this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth!
The most important word in the world of money is cash flow. The second most important word is leverage.
The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.
"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.
Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.
The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.
Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.
Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.
The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!
There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.
She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.
Raise the roof, that I might see the stars To gain wisdom, to see things for what they are Please, I need proof
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition.
The world is not full of evil because of those who do wrong. It is full of evil because of those who do nothing.
I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.
Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a reader.
The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government?
Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.
It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.
Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.
He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.
Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.
Were we more careful to obey the part of the word of wisdom that deals with the "do's" it might be easier to obey the "don'ts"
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.
Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.
Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?
The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.
The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.
What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.
The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.
"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart..."