The prevalent fear

The prevalent fear
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
  

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The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.
Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.
Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.
Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.
No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
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.
Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.
The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.
It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.