04-01-2008, 08:35 PM
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. --------------- Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. --------------- Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. --------------- It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. --------------- It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. --------------- It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. --------------- People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. --------------- The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. --------------- The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced. --------------- The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. --------------- There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join. |
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04-02-2008, 04:12 AM
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Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers. --------------- Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. --------------- Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. --------------- "I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers." --------------- And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall. She took the little maiden, on her arm, and both flew in brightness and in joy so high, so very high, and then above was neither cold, nor hunger, nor anxiety--they were with God. |
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04-02-2008, 11:28 AM
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"If you have made mistakes, there is always another
chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down." 
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