John Hay Quotes

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• True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go…
• Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you feel.
• Speak with the speech of the world; think with the thoughts of the few.
• The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
• At my door the Pale Horse stands to carry me to unknown lands.
• There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping…
• Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.
• There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.
• It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or try…
• Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.
• The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish Could they hear all that their friends say in the course of…
• What is first love worth, except to prepare for a second? What does second love bring? Only regret for the first.
• Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.
• Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.
• I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.
• Friends are the sunshine of life.

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