"A man has deprived himself of the..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson
A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.
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“The soul of me is very selfish. I have gone my way after a fashion that made me the center of the plan. And you who are so individual, who are so independent a spirit, whose soul is also a kingdom, have been so loyal, so forgiving, so self-sacrificing in your willingness to live my life. Nothing but love cold have accomplished so wonderful a thing.”
“You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.”
“I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.”
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“We now buy watches primarily for their looks, price, or additional functions. The fact that they tell time seems lost.”
“A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.”
“The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.”
More on Life
“I myself find waiting more tiring than action.”
“So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.”
“What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.”