The flowers of life

The flowers of life
The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!
  

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One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.
If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.
He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.
Peoplewho can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of itssolution.
Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.
It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.
To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.
Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.
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.