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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important. - [Weather] We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent. - [Grief] Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water. - [Anger] What people will say--in these words there lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words bear sway everywhere. - [Opinion] When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us. - [Disaster] When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others. - [Character] Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work? - [Work] With hat in hand, one gets on in the world. - [Politeness] Years teach us more than books. - [Experience] Displaying page 2 of 2 for this author: << Prev 1 [2]
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