Quotes About Balance

Never trust a man who writes more than he reads.

I have found the world kinder than I expected, but less just.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

I look upon it that a man who does not mind his stomach would hardly mind anything else.

You must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; --from fear of its being abused.

Ng??i tiêu xài nhi?u nhÆ° ti?t ki?m ???c chính là ng??i hài lòng nh?t, b?i anh ta có c? hai ni?m vui.

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

It were to be wished that they who devote their lives to study would at once believe nothing too great for their attainment, and consider nothing as too little for their regard

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

The great direction which Burton has left to men disordered like you, is this: Be not solitary; be not idle—which I would thus modify: If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.

AMBIDEXTER  (AMBIDE'XTER)   n.s.[Lat.]1. A man who has equally the use of both his hands. Rodiginus, undertaking to give a reason of ambidexters, and left-handed men, deliverth a third opinion.Brown'sVul. Err.2. A man who is equally ready to act on either side, in party disputes. This sense is ludicrous.

If the mind be curbed and humbled too much in children; if their spirits be abased and broken much by too strict an hand over them; they lose all their vigour and industry, and are in a worse state than the former.Lockeon Education,¶ 46.

Odd characters, my dear, are needful to make even characters shine. You good girls would not be valued as you are, if there were not bad ones.

It's our job to tell them that imperfect health is and always has been perfect health, and that most of the things that go wrong with their bodies we can't do much about.

And yet that hardness brings out the softness in us all

In nature there is nothing melancholy

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.

A man might not like it, but men had so many advantages that it didn't matter if occasionally they had to do stuff they didn't think was really fair.

Our perfection lies in our imperfection.

The problem with killing 99.9 percent of bacteria is that most of them protect us from the few that can make us sick.

If you're an urgent thinker, you must ask yourself why you have to be so frantic about things. Force yourself to slow down—both mentally and physically. A leisurely pace creates a welcoming energy. Start to speak more calmly, drive more slowly, and eat more leisurely. Choose to enjoy the moment instead of racing through it.

I have a healthy respect for gravity. The ground is always there, trying to pull you down. It's the most important thing to keep in mind.

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