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enLIGHT'NING FLASHes

Joseph Sadony

(1877-1960)

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1. GOOD IDEAS, like money should be in circulation to better the world's population.
2. THE REASON MOST MEN WEAR OUT is because they don't know how to transform the beautiful things around them into energy and enthusiasm.
3. WE FEAR for what we doubt in our own.
4. THE SAME POWER THAT CREATES is there waiting only for an instant of unbalance to burst its bonds of destruction.
5. WHEN YOU HEAR A SHOT, don't worry if you hear the echo.
6. WE ARE APT TO FORGET that the leveling of the ocean is not the affair of two drops.
7. THE BEST TALKER is the man who knows what to say at the right time.
8. AN IDLE MAN is as useful as a car stalled in traffic without gasoline; and as helpless.
9. IF YOU DON'T strive for a thing, someone else will use you to do so.
10. MAN SEES only what he feels, and feels what he longs for.
11. HE WHO DEFENDS HIMSELF for a virtue he does not possess, adds theft to his sin.
12. HAPPY IS THE MAN who can make what he needs with what he has.
13. LIFE is the expression of nature; but love is the expression of God.
14. THE DANGER in life is to feel too safe – or not safe enough.
15. THE MAN WHO STARTS a stampede shall be under it if he cannot direct it.
16. WE LEARN KNOWLEDGE by success, but wisdom from failure.
17. NO ONE CAN FORCE you to break your will but yourself.
18. THOSE GUILTY of sin are the first to believe a liar.
19. SOMETIMES WE THINK we become angered by someone else; but it is ourselves.
20. MAN MAKES WHAT HE CAN to pay for what he can't.
21. IF PLEASURE makes you forget, by sorrow shall you become wise to prevent.
22. WITH THE SAME NUMBER there are more friends amidst poverty than in wealth.
23. ARE NOT YOUR LOSSES often due to unexpected profits?
24. HE WHO MAKES himself a slave to truth becomes a master.
25. THE MAN WHO KNOWS what he wants is already half way on the road to success in attaining it.

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26. YOUR REAL ENEMY is one you allow in your home with confidence.
27. HE WHO HOLDS his breath and tongue the longest under waters of discord survives all calamity.
28. WHY NOT REMEMBER that before a storm it is always quiet and doubtful.
29. A WHEAT will never be a corn, no matter what fertilizer you use for it.
30. FAULT FINDS FAULT with itself.
31. WE ARE EACH a missing page of a Book, looking for the Book.
32. IT IS WELL to learn new swear words so we won't get too used to the old ones.
33. IF YOU WANT VENGEANCE without regret, don't interfere with God's justice.
34. SOME OF US FIND a truth, and expect to spend it without having earned or paid for it.
35. HE WHO SAYS faith is blind, is blind to faith.
36. WHERE REASON can avoid extremes, logic can control them.
37. EAT WHEN YOU EAT and you will sleep when you sleep.
38. MAN IS TESTED only by his faith to endure.
39. ONE NEED NOT express in words what the heart never forgets.
40. A FOOL acts according to what he is; a wise man according to what he'd like to be.
41. IF A MAN can sit and listen to birds and enjoy it, he is not very far from God.
42. THE AUTOGRAPH on a photograph is like the handclasp with the extra grip.
43. WE FORGET out secret debts, then bemoan the consequences.
44. EVEN THE VERY GOOD can be selfish to gratify the ego to make others happy.
45. WHY BELIEVE AN ECHO if you have the voice?
46. WHEN KINGS dethrone fools, they join them.
47. STICK TO YOUR JOB or someone else will find yours easier than you thought.
48. WHEN WE DEPEND IN OUR IMPULSE we are already too late.
49. GOD BEGRUDGES NO ONE; it is but man who learns to cheat himself by trying to cheat others.
50. HE WHO HAS FAITH governs his enemies and knows it not.

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51. WISDOM IS NOT what you have learned and forgotten, but what you may use at will.
52. OBEY THE SIMPLE things of life and the big things will not overthrow you.
53. HE WHO IS WISE has a right to judge but will not.
54. A THING LIGHTLY gotten is lightly kept.
55. A MELODY is being defiled by an instrument that is not in tune, or that has not all the keys.
56. THEIR OWN FAULTS would be their own discipline.
57. WHAT HAPPENS HERE happens all over the world; but it's not recognized.
58. AFTER ALL, your success depends mostly on how you have trained your habits.
59. IF YOU DON'T CULTIVATE the garden of your choice, in love or life, you shall have no fruit of happiness.
60. ALWAYS BE CAREFUL not to try convince a fool; for he will ask you a question you cannot answer.
61. HOW MUCH OF YOURSELF do you conceal; then wonder why people ignore you?
62. THE LORD never overloads a basket.
63. ANYTHING THAT SELLS itself is real.
64. IT'S NOT WHEN YOU remember somebody, but when they remember you, that is important to you.
65. HE WHO CLINGS TO LIFE creeps to death.
66. NATURE TEARS APART all things that insist on not being as well-balanced as she is.
67. WHEN YOU POSSESS too much power you become blind to it; hence neglect it, only to lose it.
68. IT'S NO VIRTUE to be clean; it's a necessity.
69. YOU MAY ACCUSE another unjustly, but your conscience disagrees.
70. WE LOSE THE BEAUTY OF LIFE when we have overeaten our fill of its offerings.
71. WHY NOT LEARN when you have enough by trying to remember when you had too much?
72. WE OFTEN MAKE GOOD in what we make people believe us to be.
73. SOME PEOPLE THINK OF DEATH just to get a kick out of life.
74. A MAN SHOULD NEVER assume the responsibility that he knows he will never carry.
75. YOUR WEAKEST ORGAN is the limitation of your strength.

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76. DO NOT SEEK where power ends, but where it is born, to find the source of compensation.
77. DON'T put a horse's harness on a goat.
78. THE MAN WHO DOESN'T want much is the happiest one because he isn't disappointed.
79. THAT MAN IS STRONGEST who has tools and knows how to make use of them.
80. MAN IS CONSTANTLY hungry, looking for that which will make him hungry.
81. IT'S THE PERSON WHO REALLY wants who has that place waiting for him, to cash in on it.
82. THE GREATEST excuse for embarrassment: "Nice day, isn't it!"
83. DON'T LET THE BRAIN learn so much it can't use what it's got.
84. WHO AMONG US SHALL LEAD if we look backward to imitate footprints in the sands already made?
85. THE MAN WHO FACES NO DANGER of any kind faces a more subtle danger: that of idleness and early old age.
86. GOD GIVES IS DESIRES, so through them we seek the Giver.
87. IF A MAN KNEW WHEN to stop talking, he would talk again; but if not, there is a big, black period.
88. IF YOU LOOK AND LISTEN you may be able to listen and look after the wreck of those who didn't.
89. TRUTH covers a multitude of virtues.
90. WHEN WE DEPEND ON OUR IMPULSE, we are already too late.
91. THE FUNCTIONING OF INTUITION is the fruit of a simple mode of life.
92. YOU CAN SEE through glasses only when you have them on.
93. IF CHARACTER GROWS NOT with your wealth, you lose both.
94. IF ONE MAN does all the fighting, will he not tire himself out, to be ridiculed and condemned?
95. IF YOU CAN'T BE an actor, then be one of an appreciative audience.
96. THE MAN WHO KNOWS need never prove it. Actions that follow are self-evidence of the fact.
97. MANY A MAN loses his temper being forced to live up to what he made people believe he was, but wasn't.
98. IGNORANT ARROGANCE ALONE is not the sin, but deception added, so false pride too may flourish.
99. SUFFERING TEMPERS the passions of man; it mellows and tenderizes his bestiality.
100. PROPHECY is man's heritage, for which he does not grasp, stoning those who do.

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