“Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words.
We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind.”
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We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind.”
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“But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.”
― After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
― After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
“A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.”
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“Most of us go through each day looking for what we saw yesterday And, not surprisingly, that is what we find.”
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