The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship. — Quoted

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“The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.”

Norman Douglas · Wisdom

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Norman Douglas

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

Wisdom

Norman Douglas

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Age

Norman Douglas

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Respect

Norman Douglas

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Education