Today Quotes
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.Saint Basil
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.Elizabeth Bowen
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.Benjamin Franklin
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.Laurence J. Peter, "The Peter Principle"
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.George Herbert
You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.Brock Chisholm
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.Benjamin Franklin
Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.Russell R. McIntyre
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.Victor Hugo
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.Thomas Paine