#ness

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#concealing #cunning #defects #discovering #other

The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#business #counsel #enterprises #fears #hopes

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#happiness #independence #other #political

God will forgive me. It's his job. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#forgive #forgive me #give me #god #his

God will forgive me; that's his business. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#forgive #forgive me #give me #god #his

In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinship. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#meaninglessness #nature-and-man #equality

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#assumes #condition #disease #essential #greater

I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you're constantly putting yourself in an environment where you're checking up on social economics or homelessness problems, if you keep yourself aware of it, you don't really have a day off. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#aware #check #checking #child #child abuse

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#could #day #except #few #good

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#advocated #both #complete #destructiveness #disputes