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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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.
Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.
It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.
No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .
Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.
The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.
No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.