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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discover

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. – Leo Rosten

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The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. – Leo Rosten

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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. – Leo Rosten

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt. – Norman Cousins

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People are divided into two parts: some of them look for and cannot find anything, others find but are not satisfied. – Mihai Eminescu, translated by Oana Platon

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If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am? – John Lancaster Spalding

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There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. – Joseph Joubert

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A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. – Alfred E. Wiggam

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