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One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
The future is wider than vision, and has no end.
What I cannot love, I overlook.
It is easy to build a philosophy. It doesn't have to run.
Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
The life of the creative man is led, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.
True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes Gods, and meaner creatures kings.
Isn't it better to have men be ungrateful, than to miss a chance to do good?
My doctor said I look like a million dollars - green and wrinkled.
The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we will not find it.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Though this may be play to you, Tis death to us.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
If you make fun of bad persons you make yourself beneath them. ... Be kind to bad and good, for you don't know your own heart.


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