Our fear of disaster

Our fear of disaster
Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur
  

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The great despisers are the greater reverers.
Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.
Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?
People say law but they mean wealth.
Onemust talk little and listen much.
If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.
Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.