Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
- Topic: Life, Time, Wisdom
- Location: Olympic National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it.
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man’s own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
