#co

I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flavour and you get into their little nuances. ↗

— Maggie Grace

#each #few #flavour #full #get

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#attempt #case #confidence #difficult #dismayed

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#arrive #beginnings #being #common #endings

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#camel #dog #eighty #fifty #forty

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#contend #lose #man #never #nothing

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#content #leave #others #talking

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#another #communicates #himself #his #makes

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#impulse #pass #second #wait

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#courage #fruit #wisdom #without

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#brief #i #obscure #strive