"Get a friend to tell you your..." - Quote by Charles Spurgeon
Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you savagely. What a blessing such an irritating critic will be to a wise man, what an intolerable nuisance to a fool!
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“Nothing is improved by anger, unless it be the arch of a cat's back. A man with his back up is spoiling his figure. People look none the handsomer for being red in the face. It takes a great deal out of a man to get into a towering rage; it is almost as unhealthy as having a fit. . . . Whatever wrong I suffer, it can not do me half so much hurt as being angry about it.”
“Wash your face every morning in a bath of praise.”
“Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.”
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“Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.”
“Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.”
“Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.”
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“Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.”
“I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably involve imponderables of intuition, prudence, and judgment.”
“As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.”