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dream happiness lived today tomorrow vision yesterday
Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
alone blow crack hammer others perhaps rock showing split watched
Have you ever watched a stonecutter at work? He will hammer away at a rock for perhaps a 100 times without a crack showing in it. Then, on the 101st blow, it will split in two. It is not that blow alone which accomplished the result, but the 100 others that went before as well.
alone present
Look well to this day, for it, and it alone is life.
alone forest hear man shakespeare woman
If a man is alone in the forest and speaks...and no woman is around to hear him...Is the man still wrong? (of course!)
words
One thing you can give and still keep is your word.
himself mighty small wrapped
He who is wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package.
gaining health lose people wealth
Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.
marvelous names scientists
Isn't it marvelous how those scientists know the names of all those stars?
fragrance gives hand
Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.
beggars horses wishes
If wishes were horses then beggars would ride.
apples
You never know how many apples there are in a seed.
marvelous open vision
Its marvelous what you can see when you open your eyes.
exhausted natural taxes-and-taxation
Of all our natural resources, the first one to be exhausted may be the taxpayer.
consists research scientific seeing thinking
Scientific research consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought.