JM Kenyon's favorites, chosen by JM Kenyon

  1. All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
        Aristotle   Best?
  2. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
        Aristotle   Best?
  3. He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  4. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  5. One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  6. Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  7. If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  8. You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  9. If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  10. Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  11. Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  12. You may delay, but time will not.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  13. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  14. Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
        Aristotle   Best?
  15. Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
        Aristotle   Best?
  16. He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  17. Early morning hath gold in its mouth.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  18. Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  19. Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  20. It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  21. Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  22. Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  23. When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  24. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
        Aristotle   Best?
  25. Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  26. Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting,
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  27. It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  28. All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  29. The good man is the friend of all living things.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  30. Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  31. Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
        Aristotle   Best?
  32. In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  33. Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  34. To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  35. There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  36. I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
        Aristotle   Best?
  37. To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
        Aristotle   Best?
  38. Nature does nothing uselessly.
        Aristotle   Best?
  39. It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
        Aristotle   Best?
  40. The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  41. Well done is better than well said.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  42. What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  43. I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  44. You must be the change you want to see in the world.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  45. The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
        Seneca   Best?
  46. When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  47. All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
        Aristotle   Best?
  48. Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
        Aristotle   Best?
  49. Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
        Aristotle   Best?
  50. He who spares the wicked injures the good.
        Seneca   Best?
  51. Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
        Aristotle   Best?
  52. Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.
        Seneca   Best?
  53. Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  54. He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  55. The future depends on what we do in the present.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  56. To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  57. Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  58. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  59. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  60. The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
        Aristotle   Best?
  61. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  62. Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
        Aristotle   Best?
  63. He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
        Aristotle   Best?
  64. He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  65. A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
        Aristotle   Best?
  66. At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  67. The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  68. Almost anything you do is insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  69. First they laugh at you, then they ignore you, then they fight with you, then you win.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?

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