It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
From Josh Billings
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
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