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Short truths, collected over a lifetime of writing and teaching. Read a few, or lose an afternoon.
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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson”
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“What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks. — Sacha Guitry, 18851959”
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“What we usually pray to God is not that his will be done, but the he approve ours. — Helga Bergold Gross”
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“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. — Confucius (551-479 BC), Analects, 15:23”
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“What you must do, do cheerfully. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“What’s most powerful is often what you most want to hide. — Robin Hemley”
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“Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: Great God, grant that twice two be not four. — Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (18181883), Prayer”
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“Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. — Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield (16941773), Letters to His Son, March 10, 1746”
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“When a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. — Washington Irving”
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“When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. — William Hazlitt, 17781830”
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“When everyone paints with lime green, lime green no longer stands out. — Chip Heath”
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“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. — Mark Twain”
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“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. — John Ruskin”
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“When my horse is running good, I don’t stop to give him sugar. — William Faulkner”
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“When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water. — Benjamin Franklin (17061790), Poor Richard’s Almanac [1746], January”
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“When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better. — Malcolm S. Forbes”
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“When you compliment your competitor, you are demonstrating respect—and respect earns respect. — Bob Burg”
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“When you go to borrow money, dress as if you have plenty of it. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“When you’re green, you’re growing; and when you’re ripe, you start to rot. — Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald’s”
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“Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart? — Tolstoi”
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“Wherever God rules over the human heart as King, there is the kingdom of God established. — Paul W. Harrison”
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“Whether we live in a ten-room villa or a one-room flat, we lose quantities of time by not being able to find things. — Thomas Harris”
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“Without problems and conflicts in our lives, very little would ever change. — Dara Marks”
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“Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. — Benjamin Franklin (17061790), Poor Richard’s Almanac [1757], May”
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“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. — C. Northcote Parkinson”
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“Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. — George Lyons”
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“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. — Thomas J. Watson, founder of IBM”
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“Wrinkles can kill you if you cringe every time you look in the mirror. — Thomas Harris”
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“Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. — Tim McMahon”
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“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. — Abraham Lincoln”
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“You cannot put the same shoe on every foot. — Publilius Syrus (First Century BC), Maxim 596”
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“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. — Golda Meir”
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“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. — Galileo”
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“You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings. — Andrew Jackson”
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“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. — Harper Lee”
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“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you knew how seldom they do. — Olin Miller”
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“You will gain better mastery of yourself when you are able to separate yourself from what you feel. — Robert Fritz”
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“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life. — John Homer Miller”
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“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. — Garson Kanin”
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“A friend is a present you give yourself. — Robert Louis Stevenson”
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