“We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.”
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Source: The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
“Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.”
Source: The Works of Frederick Schiller: Historical and Dramatic
“Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.”
“On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.”
“There is no need to show your ability before everyone.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.”
“For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.”
Source: King Henry VI Part 3: Third Series
“After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.”
“The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.”
“Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.”
Source: Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
“There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.”
“People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.”
Source: The Business of Life
“All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.”
“He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.”
Source: Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)
“Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine.”
Source: Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
“Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.”
“Good families are generally worse than any others.”
Source: The Prisoner of Zenda
“I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.”