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Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.
Joseph Farrell
We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of even by those who thought they knew us best.
Joseph Farrell
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.
Joseph Farrell
The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.
Joseph Farrell
Take my advice, dear reader, don't talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram.
Joseph Farrell
There is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much.
Joseph Farrell
If we only knew the real value of a day.
Joseph Farrell
Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram.
Joseph Farrell
When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own; and this is especially the case with those persons whose knowledge of the world is of such sort that it results in extreme distrust of men.
Joseph Farrell