Hazlitt (1778-1830) ... [Read More]
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Paine (1737-1809) ... [Read More]
Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine, out of the dearth and famine, into the fullness divine.
Margaret Sangster (1858-1912) ... [Read More]
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
Edward Rickenbacker (1890-1973) ... [Read More]
Pessimist, one who when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) ... [Read More]
The gods are the creations of the creator. They are not emanations of The Eternal. They are made by the adoration of the worshipers. It is not the gods that do the work of creation. This is done by the great natural forces working each according to its nature, the gods come into their procession after the egg of manifestation has been laid in the darkness of the cosmic night.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words, then words without heart.
John Bunyan (1628-1688) ... [Read More]
In earlier religions the spirit of time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.
Heine (1797-1856) ... [Read More]
The childish go after outward pleasures. They walk into the net of widespread death. But the wise knowing immortality, seek not the stable among things which are unstable here
. Upanishads (c. B.C.800) ... [Read More]
In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it thou art a fool.
Talmud (b.C. 400?-500?) ... [Read More]
It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) ... [Read More]
Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.
Buddha (B.C.568-488) ... [Read More]
The strictest laws sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Terence (B.C.185-159) ... [Read More]
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each of us the true progress is to know more and be more and to do more.
Lubbock (1834-1913) ... [Read More]
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightening, not to be measured by horse-power of the understanding.
Emerson (1803-1882) ... [Read More]
Few things are impracticable in themselves. It is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail.
La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) ... [Read More]
Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished.
La Rochefoucauld ... [Read More]
It is better to deserve honors and not have them then to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain ... [Read More]
Intuition is perception via the unconscious.
Carl G. Jung ... [Read More]
O God give us serenity to accept what we can not change; courage to change what should be changed, and wisdom to distinguish one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) ... [Read More]
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Daniel Webster (1782-1852) ... [Read More]
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
Richard Whately (1787-1863) ... [Read More]
All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years; but to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.
Joaquin Miller (1839-1913) ... [Read More]
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) ... [Read More]
Greed is fear itself in its ghoulish form.
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It is not the death, it’s the dying that alarms me.
Montaigne (1533-1592) ... [Read More]
When the state is most corrupt, the laws are most multiplied.
Tacitus (55-117 A. D.) ... [Read More]
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
Voltaire (1694-1778) ... [Read More]
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
Bovee (1820-1904) ... [Read More]
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Epictetus (50-138 A.D.) ... [Read More]
A man’s wisdom is his best friend folly, his worst enemy.
William Temple (1628-1699) ... [Read More]
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
Wordsworth (1770-1850) ... [Read More]
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Charles Surgeon (1834-1892) ... [Read More]
One fool can ask more questions in a minute then twelve wise men can answer in an hour.
Nikolai Lenin (1870-1924) ... [Read More]
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
Emerson (1803-1882) ... [Read More]
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ... [Read More]
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus (50-138A.D.) ... [Read More]
There’s a hope for every woe, and a balm for ever pain, But the first joys of our heart, come never back again.
Robert Gilfillan (1798-1850) ... [Read More]
By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation which is the easiest and third by experience which is the bitterest.
Confucius ( B.C. 551-479) ... [Read More]
Democracy arose from men thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Aristotle ( B.C. 384-322) ... [Read More]
I’ve always been in the right place at the right time. Of course, I steered myself there.
- Bob Hope ... [Read More]
Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth.
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) ... [Read More]
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
- Dale Carnegie ... [Read More]
Once you have learned to love, you will have learned to live.
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We fall into the trap, we set for ourselves.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
Tacitus (55-117 A.D.) ... [Read More]
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Thoreau (1817-1862 ) ... [Read More]
Liberty is the collective body, what health is to the individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
Bolingbroke (1678-1751) ... [Read More]
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when open.
Thomas Dewar (1864-1930) ... [Read More]
Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) ... [Read More]
Men love to wonder, and that is the seeds of science.
Emerson (1803-1882) ... [Read More]
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Stop dreaming; be here now.
Keys to the Meaningful Life Excerpts from Robert S. de Ropp "Self Completion". Aphorisms of neo-gnostics are brief sayings that condense the ... [Read More]
Separate from all the manifestations of your machine.
Keys to the Meaningful Life Excerpts from Robert S. de Ropp "Self Completion". Aphorisms of neo-gnostics are brief sayings that condense the ... [Read More]
True wisdom consists not in seeing what is immediately before your eyes, but in foreseeing what is to come.
Terence (B.C.185-159) ... [Read More]
The discovery of what is true and the practice of what is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.
Voltaire (1694-1778) ... [Read More]
Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all of the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.
Bergen Evans (born 1904) ... [Read More]
Volatility of words is carelessness in action words are the wings of actions.
Lavater (1741-1801) ... [Read More]
Happiness is not a reward it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment, it is a result.
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899) ... [Read More]
Water and words, easy to pour impossible to recover.
Chinese Proverb ... [Read More]
The world is full of poetry, the air is living with it’s spirit, the waves dance to the music of its melodies and sparkle in its brightness.
James Percival (1795-1856) ... [Read More]
Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
Colton (1780-1832) ... [Read More]
Work is work if you’re paid to do it, and it’s pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.
Finley P. Dunne (1867-1936) ... [Read More]
Tranquil pleasures last the longest, we are not fitted to bear long the burden of great joys.
Beecher (1813-1878) ... [Read More]
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree and endless in duration.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) ... [Read More]
The sweetest pleasure is in imparting it.
Bovee (1820-1904) ... [Read More]
All things I really like to do are immoral, illegal or fattening.
Alexander Woolcott (1887-1943) ... [Read More]
Strange, is it not? That the myriads who before us passed the door of darkness through, not one returns to tell us of the road which to discover we must travel to.
Omar Khayyam (1100) ... [Read More]
Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
Gurdjieff (1873-1949) ... [Read More]
Take a second look, it costs you nothing.
Chinese Proverb ... [Read More]
Men were born with two eyes, but one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) ... [Read More]
It’s all in the question; no question about it.
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Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity; and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.
Theodore Roosevelt (1838-1919) ... [Read More]
Who let the greedy in? Who let the needy out? Joni Mitchell song title “Banquet”.
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