All
schools, all colleges, have two great functions; to confer, and
to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which
they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that
which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries
it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.
(Mark Twain)
Every
hour make up thy mind sturdily as a Roman and a man to do what
thou hast in hand with scrupulous and unaffected dignity and love
of thy kind and independence and justice; and to give thyself
rest from all other impressions
- Meditations, II-5
(Marcus Aurelius)
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he
will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a
dog and a man.
- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
(Mark Twain)
And
my aim in my life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and
as well as I can; then, at the end of my life, I hope to pass
away, looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking,
'Oh, the pictures I might have made!'
(Vincent van Gogh)
Remember
that everything is but what we think it.
- Meditations, II-15
(Marcus Aurelius)
I
never let schooling interfere with my education.
(Mark Twain)
Seek
not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.
( Lao-Tzu)
There
is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed
by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for
instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit
among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought
him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an
ass, we are left in doubt.
- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
(Mark Twain)
My
hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
(Ovid)
He
who has never hoped can never despair.
(George Bernard Shaw)
Behold,
the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket"
- which is but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and
your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Put all your
eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET."
- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
(Mark Twain)
Whoever
does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
(Epictetus)
If
you have a lemon, make lemonade,
(Howard Gossage)
Keep
away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too,
can become great.
(Mark Twain)
He
that always gives way to others will end in having no principles
of his own.
(Aesop)
Wisdom
begins in wonder.
(Socrates)
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