Thoughts Text – Set 9 – 2017

#1

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

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#2

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

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#3

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

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#4

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

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#5

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

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#6

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

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#7

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

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#8

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

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#9

God is truth

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#10

God has created the world in play.

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#11

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

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#12

Genius is a long impatience.

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#13

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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#14

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

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#15

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

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#16

History repeats itself. that’s one of the things wrong with history

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#17

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

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#18

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

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#19

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

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#20

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

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#21

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

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#22

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

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#23

Hatred does not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is eternal rule

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#24

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

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#25

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

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#26

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

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#27

Habit: the shackles of the free

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#28

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

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#29

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

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#30

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

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#31

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

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#32

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

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#33

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

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#34

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

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#35

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

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#36

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

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#37

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person’s expense !

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#38

In stinct is the nose of the mind.

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#39

In spiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

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#40

In spiration comes of working every day.

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#41

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

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#42

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

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#43

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

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#44

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

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#45

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

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#46

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

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#47

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

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#48

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

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#49

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

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#50

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.