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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If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.
We arethe prisoners of ideas.
Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.
Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.
Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.
It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.