Quotations my father taught me early in life
Emissaries of Peace and Unity in acrylic on wood by the author, 2022
Dr Abe V Rotor
1. "Happiness is one commodity that multiplies by dividing it." Anon
2. "A place for everything and everything in its place." Anon
3. "He begins to die who quits his desires." G Herbert
4. "Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies." Old Chinese Proverb
5. "If the official is himself upright, the people will play their roles without orders. If he is not upright, even under orders the people will be disobedient." Confucius
6. "It's is always darkest just before the day dawneth." Thomas Fuller
8. "Great men cherish excellence; petty men, their comfort. Great men cherish rules, petty men, special favors." Anon
10. "Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know." Confucius
12. "The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse." Aldo Leopold
13. "The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned." Seneca
14. "Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of the fools." Napoleon
15. The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant." Cecil
16, When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied." Tacitus
17. A little learning is a dangerous thing." Alexander Pope
18. "A picture is a poem without words." Horace
19. "If you need a physician, employ those three - a cheerful mind, rest, and a temperate diet." Zimmerman
20."To read without reflecting, is like eating without digesting." Burke
"Nature never betrayed the Heart that loved her." - William Wordsworth
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