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Frankisms
Short truths, collected over a lifetime of writing and teaching. Read a few, or lose an afternoon.
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“It is never too late to give up our prejudices. — Henry David Thoreau (18171862), Walden, 1, Economy”
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“It is not the employer who pays wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages. — Henry Ford”
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“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC65 AD), Epistles, 2, 1. 2”
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“It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity. — Frederick Phillips”
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“It is often the little things in life which change things most and last the longest. — Charles Handy”
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“It is the little changes which can in fact make the biggest differences to our lives, even if these go unnoticed at the time. — Charles Handy”
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“It is well that war is so terrible—we would grow too fond of it. — General Robert E. Lee”
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“It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve him. Serving him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create. — Leo Tolstoy”
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“It’s a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing. — Andrew Young”
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“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job. It’s a depression when you lose your own. — Harry S. Truman”
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“It’s better to keep one’s mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and resolve all doubt. — Abraham Lincoln”
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“It’s the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself. — Benjamin Franklin”
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“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Just as the painter must observe the work in progress from different vantage points to best achieve the desired result, so too can you best achieve your desired results by seeing your life from various vantage points. — Robert Fritz”
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“Learning to manage your missed shots is really the greatest asset to the mental game of golf. — Steven Ungerleider”
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“Let not it be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess. For he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better. — Blaise Pascal”
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“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. — Mark Twain”
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“Life affords us the opportunity to make of our lives blessings rather than burdens. — Robert Fritz”
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“Life is the garment we continually alter, but which never seems to fit. — David McCord (18971997), Whereas to Mr. Franklin [1956]”
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“Life without risk is just sanitized death. — Steven James”
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“Little changes can somehow have big effects. — Malcolm Gladwell”
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“Little strokes fell great oaks. — Benjamin Franklin (17061790), Poor Richard’s Almanac [1750], August”
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“Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time. — The Dalai Lama”
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“Lost time is never found again. — Benjamin Franklin (17061790), Poor Richard’s Almanac [1748], January”
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“Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune. — Tony Snow”
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“Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness. — Martin Luther”
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“Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. — Benjamin Franklin”
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“Man is his own worst enemy. — Cicero”
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“Many people adopt the premise that they must tailor their desires to their talents and abilities. — Robert Fritz”
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“Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks. — John Lyly (c. 15541606), Euphues: The Anataomy of Wit. Arber’s reprint, 81”
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“Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up. — Henry David Thoreau (18171862), Life Without Principle [1863]”
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“Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. — Martin Luther King Jr”
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“Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can be felt only if you don’t set any conditions. — Arthur Rubinstein”
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“Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty. — Timothy Ferriss”
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“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. — Albert Einstein”
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“Nature is the living, visible garment of God. — Goethe”
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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. — Abraham Lincoln”
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“Never deprive someone of hope. It might be all they have. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Never quit on a bad day. — Jerry Cleaver”
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“Never risk what you can’t afford to lose. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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