The flowers of life

The flowers of life
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!
  

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In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.
I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.
We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Adversityis the foundation of virtue.
Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.
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!
No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.
I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.