The good things

The good things
The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.
  

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Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.
Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.
Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.
Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.
Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.
The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"
Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.
My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.