A large ocean liner

A large ocean liner
A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out
  

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Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'
Outside noisy, inside empty.
You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.
Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.
A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.
Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.