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A feat of moderate delight could be a little rhyme.

A few words to bring hope into despair, calm down unruly joys and love, and for cheer: "It will pass." Hopefully, that piece of advice won't pass very quickly. It has been around for long.

A fine bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep. - Cf. Joseph Cossman

A good laugh can assist thinking, but to laugh out loud for long alone may not help you to solve underlying problems.

A good life takes its time, and often up to a life-time.

A husband and wife may generate good events also.

A little tree has little chance of winning unless it is shielded from many sorts of attacks by its bark. So the right to defend oneself is natural too. You may find it fit to keep your guard too.

A lovely flower that is plucked or put in a vase to die before its time.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die. - Niels Bohr

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? - Albert Einstein

A real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. - With Buddha

A really valuable thing is intuition. Fairness is another. - In part with Albert Einstein

A source of delight is the finding out.

A talking parrot, beautiful as it is, is not quite the ideal for a human that wants to think and do better.

A Turkish pasha was surveying a battlefield with his glass. An aide-de-camp rode up and cried, "All our artillery has been captured!" - The pasha stroked his beard philosophically and said, "Fortunately it wasn't paid for."

A wrong marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes n the hope of pulling out an eel. - Cf. Leonardo da Vinci

After being over-cocky without reasonable support, lard won't help.

Aggressive artists are suspected to have a romantic side in hiding.

All must be brought back to a unity . . . an authentic unity. - Plotinus, Enneads 5,5,4.

Along with insights you probably need controlling, handling power to implement good things and get rid of the rest. - Tao Te Ching, from chap. 51

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake. - W. C. Fields

Among rabbis, humour is treasured as great and religious, as seen in A Treasury of Jewish Folklore. (Cf. Ausubel 1948)

And facts may be tested for the sake of solidifying a living. And then the able man learns to compare while there is time.

Anology means drawing a conclusion by finding many points of similarity. There are so many points of similarity between human beings and animals. - Srila Prabhupada, The Higher Taste. Abr.

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. - Albert Einstein

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. - Albert Einstein

Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. - William Hazlitt

Anyone who studies our poisonous drugs, our denatured food, our death-trap automobiles and houses, our lung-rotting cities, must concede that we accept a good deal of murder . . . simply because it is done to make or save money. - Joy Davidman

Art is a formidable way to enjoy leisure to some, and the art of living is not to be forgotten thereby.

Arts, healing methods, relaxation methods, elucidations and medical expertise thrive on the strains of educated living.

As life is the ongoing task of not finishing everything all of a sudden, the phases of this and that when certain major things are nearing completion are times to be greatly alarmed - disconcerted enough to let some seeds of delicate, own new beginnings stir to sprout inside oneself.

As you keep reading, be well protected and guarded. Otherwise, sensed or imagined dangers or hazards may activate the "fight, fright or flight" response, which makes learning difficult. (WP, "Fight-or-flight response")

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Barn adjustments had better be in step with what's seasonal. Some harvest life joyfully and well.

Be conform with the worthy and noble from the start if that is possible. - [True friends - Buddha]

Be just to all, but never trust all. (American)

Be tough enough not to fail in vain . . .

Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck. - Buddha

Being in luck is good, but may work for bad in a wider picture, and the other way round.

By acting proficiently well ahead in the "game", you could benefit your children and grandchildren and many others, animals and plant life included.

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Careful, figurative suggestions that leave no harm can assist growth in springtime, that is, the spring of childhood and youth.

Children must at least in part look after their own upbringing . . . some forming of their character lies in their own hands.

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding. - François de La Rochefoucauld

Connecting may rest on being considered acceptable in the first place.

Convenient conditions and perhaps also associates will generally be needed for great work too. We cannot always hope to realize our full potential alone and ill equipped on a drifting ice floe in the Antarctic region.

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? . . . Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. - Alfred Whitney Griswold

Cults may seem unnatural, but they are much like farms where members serve - even for free - like farm animals of a sort.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another. - Emerson