"We cannot expect to be happy always..." - Quote by Hans Christian Andersen
We cannot expect to be happy always ... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise.
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“I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow brain, could not bear much; he fancies that he has become a real man, and that I am his shadow.”
“In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.”
“Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She could not forget that this was the last night she would ever see the one for whom she had left her home and family, had given up her beautiful voice, and had day by day endured unending torment, of which he knew nothing at all. An eternal night awaited her.”
More on Wisdom
“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
“Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.”
“I prithee gentle friend,Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, swayIn this uncivil and unjust extentAgainst thy peace.”