Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?Author: Henry Harland Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.Author: Charles A. Stoddard Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.Author: William Hazlitt God appoints … [Read more…]
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.Author: Jonathan Larson I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.Author: Brendan Francis Behan Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.Author: Ashleigh Silence is one great art of conversation.Author: Anonymous … [Read more…]
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.Author: Josh Billings To be a man’s own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody’s.Author: Sir William Penn Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.Author: George Bernard Shaw It … [Read more…]
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.Author: Ben Hecht He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.Author: Tryon Edwards Sex prejudice is so ingrained … [Read more…]
Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.Author: Sir William Penn Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.Author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and … [Read more…]
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.Author: Henry David Thoreau Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.Author: Tryon Edwards Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes begging.Author: Martin Luther Superstition is the poison of the mind.Author: Joseph Lewis Superstition is … [Read more…]
Habits…the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction…You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way – by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.Author: Juliene BerkI never could … [Read more…]
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Beauty and Goodness Beauty endures for only as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow. – Sappho Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object. – William Hazlitt, Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but … [Read more…]
As a white candle In a holy place, So is the beauty Of an aged face. – Joseph Campbell To me, fair friend, you never can be old For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. – Shakespeare As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. – Ralph … [Read more…]