SELECTED THOUGHTS
In this small group of Selected Thoughts readers will find some
important ideas to be stored in their memory for off and on use in daily life.
1.
Few
men are admired by their servants.
2.
Prosperity
is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.
3.
The
flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.
4.
He
that has no cross will have no crown.
5.
The
worst men often give the best advice.
6.
Let
us respect gray hairs, especially our own.
7.
Not
failure, but low aim, is crime.
8.
In
great attempts it is glorious even to fail/
9.
Ambition
is rhe avarice ofpower.
10.
Great souls, by nature half divine, soar to
the stars, and hold a near acquaintance with the gods.
11.
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
12.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
13.
Those we call ancients were really new in
everything.
14.
Good cheer is no hindrance to a good life.
15.
Architecture is frozen music.
16.
The mission of art is to represent nature; not
to imitate her.
17.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his
own wings.
18.
Talkers are no good doers. We go to use our
hands and not our tongues.
19.
Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter.
20.
A
thing of beauty is a joy for ever.
21.
Early
to bed, and early to rise. Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
22.
Behaviour is a mirror to which every one
displays his image.
23.
The child is father of the man.
24.
Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the
day.
25.
Confidence
is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.
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G. R. Kanwal
22 August 2026
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