Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
-Louis Kronenberger
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One can no more judge a [person] by the actions of an hour than the climate of a country by the temperature of a day.
-J. Petit-Senn
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The life dream is… the “path with heart”; it is based on intrinsic love of the activity or goal.
-Patricia Weenolsen
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Ask yourself what your predominant fault is: you have discovered, in a misguided but clearly identified state, your greatest resource.
-Antonin G. Sertillanges
Try it! Looking at something from a different perpective can be very revealing.
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One way in which modern technology allows us to do more is by eliminating “unnecessary” delays: to boil water, wind a watch, or put paper in a typewriter. Such vanishing pauses deprive us of opportunities to catch our breath.
-Ralph Keyes
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It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
-Murphy’s Law, Book Two
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Mountains are the scribblings of time on the surface of the land…. Here man does not matter, does not count…The steam, the trout, the mountains, go on with or without me, dancing, as they have for so long, to time’s madder music-rhythms older than interstellar dust.
-Harry Middleton
On the Spine of Time: An Angler’s Love [...]
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Never take the thatch off your own house to buy slates for a neighbor’s.
-Irish proverb
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The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have curiosity to know why this is so: but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain and hunger, and mosquitos, and silly people.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A good time to laugh is any time you can.
-Linda Ellerbee
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