Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is something more divine, and advancing by a way hardly observed it goes happily on its road.
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Everything that happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
