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Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles..

Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

- Calvin Coolidge

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

- John Russell

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

- G. K. Chesterton

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

- T. S. Eliot

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

- Nancy Astor

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

- George Orwell

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

- Samuel Butler

The beginning of knowledge

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. - Frank Herbert If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. - Isaac Asimov The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. - Socrates There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. - Bertrand Russell To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. - Benjamin Disraeli All men by nature desire knowledge. - Aristotle If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin READ MORE

If we had no winter

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet, 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655 In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, when birds do sing... sweet lovers love the spring. - William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act V, sc. 3 [Spring is] when life's alive in everything. - Christina Rossetti An optimist is the human personification of spring. - Susan J. Bissonette Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. - Victor Hugo To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. - George Santayana I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. - John Locke Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. - Rene Descartes Make not your thoughts your prisons. - William Sha...

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. - Alice Walker

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