Ideas won’t keep…

Like a Cat on the Stove-Lid: On Learning #1

We should get out of an experience only the wisdom that was in it-and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits on the hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on the hot stove-lid again…but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
-Mark Twain

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #80

Butter’s dear bought when it’s licked off a briar.
-Irish proverb

In this proverb, butter means something you really want-maybe popularity, love, praise, or a material thing. A briar is a bush with needlelike leaves. Licking butter off the briar would take a long time and be unpleasant, too
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“Ideas won’t keep…” #56

It goes againest common sense to have so much stuff, have it for a second, then throw it away.
-Patricia Poore, editor and publisher of Garbage magazine
Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things for which you would not take money.
-Anonymous

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #19

Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all the services which can be done to [men and women], I know of none more precious.
-William Hale White

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #22

Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best.
-Rev. Oliver G. Wilson

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #52

When something bad happens to us, we can see it as a major disaster that will affect us forever. Or we can look at it as a disappointment that we will find a way around.
Mike Todd, the movie producer, said it this way:
I’ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. [...]

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“…wonderous days, surprising days” #3

Don’t do for others what you wouldn’t think of asking them to do for you.
-Josh Billings

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“How do you make a life?…” #4

That daily life is really good one appreciates when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after an illness. Why not realize it now?
William Lyon Phelps
Essays on Things

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #50

Shame is not living up to your own expectations. Guilt is not living up to the expectations of others.
-Jay Lefer, M. D.

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“But we are more than logical” #3

Anyone who angers you conquers you.
Sister Elizabeth Kenny
A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each of these quotations could be true for the same person-but in different situations. When might each be appropriate? How could each be abused?

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