Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? "

Related Quotes:

" Knowledge without education is but armed injustice. "

" When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed. "

" Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself. "

" Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. "

" We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others. "

" Every old poem is sacred. "

" Labor diligently to increase your property. "

" Anger is a short madness. "

" He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass. "

" Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. "

" Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. "

" The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. "

" A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. "

" We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. "

" Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze. "

" Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. "

" We are free to yield to truth. "

" It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit. "

" The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do. "

" You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back. "

" If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself. "

" Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. "

" He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful. "

" Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. "

" Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too. "

" Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. "

" Words will not fail when the matter is well considered. "

" The man is either mad, or he is making verses. "

" If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him. "

" A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. "