Agona Apell Quotes

The eternal struggle between failure and fortune is a fight not between mortal enemies but sparring partners. So fortune is improved by failure, and the reverse is also true.
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The quality of a conqueror is to be judged as much by what he spears as by what he spares
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Men who attain great heights always have few friends but many admirers, while those who ply the lower reaches of fortune often have many friends but scarcely an admirer in sight
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I rebuke societies that impart to their flowers their cold and rigid demeanour. Flowers should not stand with the stiffness of a soldier on parade but must carry themselves with the relaxedness of a dancer, their arms outstretched above a shaggy mane. Life reveals few sights as distressing as the look of flowers standing mournfully at attention unstirred by the kisses of a million bees. This infection of uncomely reserve is the handiwork of sombre gardeners bred in sombre societies who will not consider their work done till their flowers exude in aspect that stiffness they esteem. They forget that God intended that we mingle with flowers and not merely admire them from afar. But there is a look in a fastidiously manicured garden that makes me keep my distance, a look that draws my eyes but scorns my touch, and that is why I condemn them.
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In the world of oratory, the cunning atheist declares himself a believer so as to preserve access to the rich fund of tales from religious texts and to powerful concepts like God, fate, angels, the soul, & the afterlife.
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The bold display of our unattractive parts is an effective substitute for beauty since it duplicates beauty's principal effects, namely the excitation of admiration, charm, and envy in the beholder, who is moved to wish that they too could carry their own defects with the same ease.
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A book is the only true land of the free: within its borders, anything is possible
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There are things to be obtained by law and things to be obtained by claw
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The manager needs only a molehill to build a mountain, but the money-ger needs a full mountain to build another.
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A rain forest springs from the droppings of animals and grows greater than any cultivated garden; likewise, a great mass of literary skill springs from the droppings of writers that cross our minds through the reading we do.
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A struggle is fatally injured not so much by the stumbles of its leaders as by their mumbles
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Gender equality remains meaningless until we consider it to mean that femininity and masculinity, when we consider the full scope of capabilities that they each afford humanity, are of equal value to society. Therefore, women who attempt to act out equality while suppressing their femininity do not prove equality but only the advantage of masculinity.
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The low suffer most the blow of the law
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The law is not an ass but a chameleon in ass skin: it turns deathly black when around blacks and pristine white when around whites
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The further from law you move, the closer to claw you come.
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The highest form of worship is to answer God's prayer.
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While reason steers a man, it is faith alone that moves him
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People of great faith are almost always lacking in reason, while people possessed of great reason often suffer from a pitiful lack of faith. So it always happens that people of great faith can move the world but cannot steer it, while people possessed of great reason excel at steering the world but are hopeless at moving it
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The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer.
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The true worth of a man is not seen in the value his money gives him but in the value he gives his money by the uses he puts it to
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Friends are won through personal contact, but admirers are won through their contact with our works
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To the aimless man all men are equal, but to him with purpose some men are seed and others weed
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The rich don't know when they will die, but the world's poor don't know when they will live
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Faith is not mere belief but is that state you attain when you send your will, words, thoughts, beliefs, and actions into orbit around a chosen goal
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The quality of a man is to be judged not by what he drives but by what drives him
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Asking someone to make for you money is like asking them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby
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Depending on someone to make for you money is quite like depending on them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby
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There are three houses that the ultimate adult must leave: their parents' house, their employer's house, and their teacher's house. So they must someday found their own home, their own business, and their own school of thought so that they can live under their own roof at home, at work, and in thought.
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The fortune that you feel you don't deserve is heaven's compensation for the misfortunes she feels you didn't deserve
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The experience of the expert is an advantage to them only for as long as it enables them to learn faster than the novice
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Success dwells in a neighbourhood that can only be explored through failure, and it is through perfect knowledge of that neighbourhood that we gain perfect knowledge of her address
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The choice is ours to make whether the stars in the night sky shine upon us as headlights of an approaching paradise or as tail-lights of receding fortunes
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It is through aversion to hardship that great ideas are born, but it is only through acceptance of it that these ideas can be implemented
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You lose nothing if by losing a friend you win countless admirers
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Fortune draws her breath through cracks that make coarse the route on which we march to success
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To be laughed at draws more profitable attention than being smiled at
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Today's troubled homes are made by parents who want to have children but don't want their children to have parents
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The world is fast becoming a corporate caliphate
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Might without right makes blight
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It is only in grammar that the mighty can be bound by rules made by the humble
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There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won't stop crying: it is a big baby who won't stop whining about it
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The first act in the training of a warrior should be how to string his rifle and turn it into a guitar
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I have this feeling that immigrants unwittingly help to keep peace between nations by being scapegoats for national ills that would otherwise be blamed on neighbours.
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It's by stooping that fingers create a fist, and by standing tall that they give us open palms.
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Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy
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It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous
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