WednesdayMay 01, 2024
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There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
Strength alone knows conflict; weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished.
In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, But it dries up, too, like a torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.
There are times when it would seem as if God fished with a line, and the Devil with a net.
There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, And nothing which goes is lost.
In the opinion of the world marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy.- The truth is precisely the reverse; it begins All.
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
If we look closely at this world, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is he, who, after All, commands the most fidelity and the most love.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, And the serious part of frivolous ones.
We are always looking into the future, But we see only the past.
We are rich only through what we give, And poor only through what we refuse.
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. A straw or a feather sustains itself long in the air.
We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but By what they are relatively to us.
If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.
The mind wears the colors of the soul, As a valet those of his master.
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.
Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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