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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries.
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People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
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Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years.
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Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
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Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more than they do.
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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
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I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
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Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.
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The written word can be erased - not so with the spoken word.
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One thing you can give and still keep is your word.
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When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.
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Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.
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Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
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It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
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What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their differe
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Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.
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He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
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It is with a word as with an arrow - once let it loose and it does not return.
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The poor and the affluent are not communicating because they do not have the same words. When we talk of the millions who are culturally deprived, we refer not to those who do not have access to good libraries and bookstores, or to museums and centers for
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
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One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less w
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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.
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It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
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There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
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By words the mind is winged.
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Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.
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To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.
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You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.
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Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.
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If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.
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The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.
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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
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It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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Water is the only drink for a wise man.
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The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
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Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.
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Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.
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He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.
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Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as t
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Everyone is wise until he speaks.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
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