Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
From Charlotte Bronte
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.
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