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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one grave yard to another.
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Can miles truly separate you from friends….If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months.
Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self-gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.
The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something.
It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.
In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations.
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
