That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
Frank Moore Colby
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Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.
Were it not for the presence of the unwashed and the half-educated, the formless, queer and incomplete, the unreasonable and absurd, the infinite shapes of the delightful human tadpole, the horizon would not wear so wide a grin.
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