Condensed Wisdom
A Collection of Quotations and Wisdom ... Compiled by K. Michael Prewitt.
Simplicity
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.
-Leo Tolstoy
Moderation
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
-Frank McKinney Hubbard
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.
-William Hazlitt
Modern Day Management
So much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.
-Peter Drucker
Nothing is sufficient for the man to whom the sufficient is too little.
- Epicurus
Blessings v. Misfortunes
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
-Charles Dickens
Ignorance
O God, help us not to despise or oppose what we do not understand.
-William Penn
'Do everything you do to the glory of the One who made you.'
All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.
-Thomas Carlyle
Work
Work keeps us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
-Voltaire
A Book of Knowledge Left Blank
There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them.
-Kim Hubbard
Spread Thin & Shallow
Everywhere is nowhere
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When a person spends all this time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
-Seneca
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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I am merely a traveler through this life. While I look forward to my arrival, there is joy in the journey.
-K.Michael Prewitt
'To Bear All Things Patiently'
Consider, Sir, how insignificant this will appear a twelve-month hence.
-Samuel Johnson
Self-Improvement
Man cannot remake himself without suffering.
For he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
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