Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.
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Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation – what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.
If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
I think it better that in times like these a poet’s mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.