Darkly Comical Quotes

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Anybody can become angry – that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy. – Aristotle

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. – C.C. Scott

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you cannot accept regret. – Amiel

Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. – Schiller

The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd. – Donnell

The parent’s job year in and year out, here a little and there a little, is to build up a disposition of good sportsmanship, of taking one’s medicine, of facing the music, of being reviled and reviling not. This sense of not always being right or recognition that perhaps we’ve made a mistake, seems left out of some grown-up children. – Samuel Smith Drury

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. – Abraham Lincoln

Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. The best way is to forget doubts and set about the task at hand. If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure. – Robert Hillyer