"To barter and lose is better than..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran
To barter and lose is better than not to go forth.
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“My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.”
“The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness.”
“You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.”
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“I think once a person realizes that they are every day either sowing into their life either potential success, or sowing into their life potential failure, they would all of a sudden go okay, I've got to figure out what I'm going to do.”
“Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.”
“I will not take "but" for an answer.”
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“It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.”
“To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.”
“But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.”