“The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.”
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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
