Serious Wisdom

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A

I will go anywhere provided it is forward.

B

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

C

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

D

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.

E

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

F

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.

G

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

H

We first make our habits and then our habits make us.

I

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

J

Good judgment comes from experience, which comes from poor judgment.

K

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

L

The day most wholly lost is the one on which one does not laugh.

M

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

N

It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.

O

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternatives.

P

If you can give your son only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Q

Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side.

R

Educate men without religion, and you make them but clever devils.

S

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

T

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

U

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

V

It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us.

W

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

X

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Y

Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Z

Zeal without humility is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.

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