Monday, March 16, 2020

Untitle essays

Untitle essays 1. I should not talk about myself if there were anybody whom I knew so well. (p.2, ln.1) 2. ... they are employed... laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fools life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before. (p.3, ln.29) 3. The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. (p.4, ln.21) 4. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. (p.6, ln.5) 5. What everybody echoes of in silence passes by as true today may turn out to be falsehood tomorrow... (p.6, ln.29 6. But mans capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried. (p.8, ln.11) 7. Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each others eyes for an instant? (p.8, ln.25) 8. No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly to have Learn from your own experiences. Know yourself. Dont care about wealth if your soul is wealthy then you have enough. Treat each other kindly and then youll begin to see the best of human kind. Be confident in yourself. Be able to love what you see in the mirror every morning. Then youll go places. Never take what people say as the truth. Make up your own mind about it. Dont say you cant because no one ever has. You could always be the first. Things change so drastically when you look at it from a different view. People dont see it enough. Society often place emphasis on things that shouldnt always be emphasized. Fashionable, or at least clean ...