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He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
-James Huneker
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He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. 
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. 
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures. 
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice 
When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, 'It is talking to me, and about me'. 
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers 
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom 
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing 
Dying is like coming to the end of a long novel--you only regret it if the ride was enjoyable and left you wanting more. 
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. 
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. 
Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction 
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless. 
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present. 
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. 
If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. 
History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. 
A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. 
New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along 
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking. 
Marriagei s the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is Eternity 
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved 
Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness. 
Some people put walls up, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down. 
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. 
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. 
Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in 
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still 
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. 
Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. 
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. 
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. 
Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching. 
If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level. 
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. 
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. 
When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it. 
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Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. 
