Life is no brief candle-

Life is no brief candle-
Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!
  

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Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.
Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.
There is much more learning than knowing in the world.
Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.
A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.
Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.
Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.
He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.