It is a lesson

It is a lesson
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
  

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Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.
Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.
He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.
Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.
Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'
Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.