To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
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To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.
There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.
To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here at the moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize what you have back there on earth. The earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.
As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person can seem like a miracle, so improbable a happening as to be awe-inspiring. And simultaneously one is heartened by the fact that self-actualizing persons do in fact exist, that they are therefore possible, that the gauntlet of dangers can be run, that the finish line can be crossed.
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
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