#wi

O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire. ↗

— Lewis J. Bates

#bold #conquers #desire #door #each

The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come. ↗

— Lewis J. Bates

#crumb #god #goes #grow #harvest

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances. ↗

— Orlando A. Battista

#chances #give #many #opportunities #second

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing? ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#answer #epistemology #explorer #heart #inevitably

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#enough #future #how #into #know

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#ask #go #good #good place #life

There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former. ↗

— Max Baucus

#been #china #critical #former #human

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#ceaselessly #drunk #drunken #escape #hour

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#art #committed #effort #evil #fatally

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#being #enjoys #himself #incomparable #others