Author

Norman Douglas

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“You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.”— Norman Douglas
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“Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.”— Norman Douglas
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“Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.”— Norman Douglas
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“There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.”— Norman Douglas
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“The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.”— Norman Douglas
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“What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?”— Norman Douglas
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“The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.”— Norman Douglas
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“A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.”— Norman Douglas