"It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue."

-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Mistake Quotes #Too Much Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.”

Source : Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.
“One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.”
“I want people to know that blood tests alone won't always detect thyroid disease. My blood panels were normal. I think a lot more people have this disease than are diagnosed.”
“Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.”
“I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Happiness is like a plant: It must be watered daily with giving thoughts and actions.”
“People often find it easier to refute a fake extreme opponent than a more cautious real one, so they knock down the straw man instead. It is actually worth the trouble to identify the invalid forms of argument, and to learn their names. Not only can you then avoid them yourself; you can also identify them in opponents. If you call your opponent's errors by their Latin names, you can make it look as though he or she is suffering from a rare tropical disease.”
“If drinking don't kill me, her memory will.”

Source : Song: If drinkin' don't kill me

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