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When the General fears the people, there is General.
When the people fear the General, there is tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
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T he
excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite
direction.
B etter
a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
A ll
things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater
ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his
natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
N o
one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to
govern.
O pinion
is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
W e
can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of
life is when men are afraid of the light.
N othing
is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
N ot
what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
D o
not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what
you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
T hink
like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
A ll
those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their
minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
W henever
the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
L uck
is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
E xpecting
is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of
tomorrow, it loses today.
T ime
heals what reason cannot.
K now
how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
W e
have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we
speak.
W ealth
consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
T he
desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
S implicity
is the ultimate sophistication.
B eware
the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden, (1631–1700)
W e
are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true
and sufficient to explain their appearances.
B y
failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
T he
definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting
different results.
B eware
of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
H ear
reason, or she'll make you feel her.
L ife's
tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
W orry
is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
M y
observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge
of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at
all if three or more are employed therein.
D etermine
never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of
the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be
done if we are always doing.
I
may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute.
D o
not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave
a trail.
B e
sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
G ive
me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four
sharpening the axe.
T he
young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
I rrationally
held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
E veryone
thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
W hen
I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have
the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how
much the old man had learned in seven years.
W e
make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
S olitary
trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
I f
you are going through hell, keep going.
N o
folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
I f
the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.
B e
nice to people on your way up because you meet them on the way down.
N ot
everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can
be counted.
M ake
everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
P erfection
of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
I t's
not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
T ime
sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the
robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
W herever
men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how
things should be done.
I t
is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so
often come in separate packages.
E ducation
is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
K nowledge
is not simply another commodity. On the contrary.
Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by
dispersion.
W e
read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We
are always ready — even eager — to discover, from the announcement of a new
product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.
W e
suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our
illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have
put in their place.
I f
a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is —
a truth standing apart from the mood of the times.
W hen
you are doing one thing — talking on your phone, texting, whatever — you
are automatically not doing something else. What is the greatest
scarcity in the world today? It's not oil. It's time. Time
is precious. Don't throw it away.
I n
theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in
practice, there is.
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