Charles Buxton Quotes

#1. A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.

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#2. All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

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#3. If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

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#4. All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

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#5. To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.

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#6. A successful career has been full of blunders.

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#7. The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.

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#8. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.

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#9. Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

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#10. The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

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#11. In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

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#12. Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

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#13. Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

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#14. You cannot win without sacrifice.

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#15. You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

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#16. The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

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#17. In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

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#18. Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

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#19. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

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#20. Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.

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#21. I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

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#22. Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.

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#23. The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one person and another-between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant-is energy-invisible determination.

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#24. You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

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#25. Proverbs are potted wisdom.

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#26. Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.

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#27. In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit.

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