enLIGHT'NING FLASHes

Joseph Sadony

(1877-1960)

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Joseph Sadony

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201 to 225

  1. WE MUST LEARN not to allow minor influences to control us; we must be conscious of our own propelling force.
  2. CONDEMNATION has not the greatest effect to eliminate vice, but careful praise for the remaining virtue.
  3. HE WHO CAN ACCEPT REBUKE with gratefulness will soon learn to wield a sceptor with Justice.
  4. HE WHO LEARNS TO SUBDUE his lesser senses, acquires greater power in thought, which is the blossom of the next newborn fruit.
  5. USE SYMPATHY and you won't lose it.
  6. LOVE HAS HOPE where reason dies of starvation.
  7. IT IS NOT ALWAYS a change of mind, but a change of food, that drops the wrench in the gears.
  8. OFTEN WE ABSORB KNOWLEDGE or food not meant for us, and of which, like a stain, we must rid ourselves in order to start anew.
  9. DO YOU NEED A LIFETIME of experience to find out that you were born to have been what you will; and that your bulbs were born before your blossoms?
  10. FAITH IS A LIVING BOOK of future events; history but experience of the dead.
  11. WHEN A MAN ACQUIRES more than he deserves, that moment he loses the value and pleasure of it all.
  12. A MAN BECOMES WISER in the attitude of aspiration than in the realization of his acquired knowledge.
  13. IT'S NOT WHAT you make; it's how you make it, that lives after you. "How" is it's soul.
  14. WHAT GOOD ARE LESSONS if you don't learn them?
  15. IF YOU INTEND to climb a high mountain, don't tie yourself to relations who can't.
  16. YOU MUST LIVE long enough to forget your faults.
  17. OFTEN TESTS of worthiness are made through sorrow, depressions and catastrophies. Cheer up!
  18. HOW HAVE YOU kept house in that body of yours, to make it think the thots you do?
  19. SCRATCH A MAKE-BELIEVE bite long enough and you soon will be obliged to heal it up.
  20. IT IS ONLY TODAY that you may leave your mark. Fail not, good or ill, for others to behold.
  21. THERE IS ALWAYS a future. Eternity is proof of that.
  22. PEOPLE SEEM TO FORGET God when most in need of Him.
  23. IT IS ONLY FALSE PRIDE that tries to exhibit a greatness that is not possessed.
  24. THE TRUTH ANSWERS for itself if one is patient.
  25. WHEN IN A MOB it is best to drift along, or you will be trampled upon.

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  1. DOES NOT A LITTLE BOY try to steal the apples farthest away, or go to the top shelf for jam?
  2. THE HEAVIEST LOAD KEEPS THE STRAIGHTEST PATH.
  3. PRAYING "Thy will be done" does not make it so. You've got to do that.
  4. WHEN YOU DON'T know, be silent so you may.
  5. IF YOU CAN'T walk or talk yourself out of it, think yourself out of it.
  6. YOU MAY SEE your virtues; but the question is, do you feel them?
  7. SO FEW SEEK THE FUTURE that those who do are alone.
  8. OUR OWN SINS judge us; our own virtues forgive us.
  9. HE WHO TALKS too much is baiting a trap for a hungry man who, when caught, starves to death.
  10. IT IS ONLY A FOOL who is ever ready to call others one.
  11. THE TRUTH is no better for your telling it, but you are better for trying to be a part of it.
  12. IS THE OPINION of a fool more valuable than the oath of a hypocrite?
  13. WHICH IS GREATER: an honest failure or a cheater's success?
  14. A BIG MAN can be simple and small; but a small man can't afford to be big, for then he won't live long.
  15. CAN GOD TRUST you with the confidence of a sinner?
  16. IF YOU ARE NOT in touch with God above the clouds, then you are under the dominion of man.
  17. WHY DO SO MANY good ears listen to evil tongues, then wonder what blinded them?
  18. A MAN WITH BRAINS on a tension is hurt by idle and useless things.
  19. SWEETNESS can be surpassed only by a pinch of salt or a drop of bitter.
  20. MANY USE THE COIN of sorrow to pay for lasting happiness.
  21. WITHOUT A FULCRUM a crow-bar isn't worth a darn.
  22. WHEN A MAN DWELLS on what he has done, he shows what he can't do, or he would have done it.
  23. YOU TAKE WHAT YOU GET; ah yes, but you don't get what you take.
  24. LITTLE THINGS look best in small mirrors, and are more appreciated.
  25. AN IDEAL is a negative. Make it a positive. You can.

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251 to 275

  1. IF YOU FAIL to discover new truths, repeat old ones that have been forgotten.
  2. IF YOU DON'T keep your place, someone will take it. Can you object?
  3. MAN MAKES MORE effort to steal a thing than to pay for it. Why?
  4. THE MORE WISE you are, the greater your personal responsibility to impart it.
  5. TRY TO BE as good a loser as you are a winner, and you will feel more safe.
  6. WHAT THE MIND is able to conceive, within the bounds of reason and common sense, may be realized.
  7. MANY TIMES grief is a key to happiness, and failure a key to success.
  8. IN SWATTING A FLY, you know, we often hit ourselves with more vigour than we intended.
  9. IT IS YOUR OWN FAULT if you make yourself a prisoner by borrowing the rut of another.
  10. IF YOU DEPRIVE YOURSELF of your duty by relieving another of his, your sin is two-fold.
  11. YOU CAN CONVINCE a fool by just making a fool of him.
  12. WHAT MAN HAS FREEDOM who does not seek bondage?
  13. IT IS NOT ALL in how you live, but how you die, and why?
  14. ONE WHO CANNOT TAKE his own medicine has no right to give it to others.
  15. IT IS WELL TO REMEMBER that the corn on your foot hurts only you.
  16. NO BIG SHEPHERD ignores the little shepherd as long as there is one lamb left.
  17. THE MAN WHO DEALS IN FAITH has hope to give away.
  18. ARE NOT MEETINGS the beginnings of separations?
  19. WHERE ARE YOU GOING so fast to waste your time?
  20. WHEN CHRIST SAID, "Feed my lambs", He did not mean "Shear their wool and eat lamb chops."
  21. IT IS GOOD to have respect tested by the temperature of a fool.
  22. ENJOY YOURSELF A LITTLE every day because it's getting later than you think.
  23. DON'T EXPECT cleanliness, order and respect where there is no pride.
  24. WHY NOT SHOW people what they have got, instead of your picture of Micky Mouse?
  25. THEY WERE ACTING a thing that was true; but not true in their acting.

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  1. HIS FALSE PRIDE and his own deception changed the name of God to Satan.
  2. MAN MAKES HIMSELF believe he is better than anything else; and by that belief makes it come true.
  3. IF YOU DON'T use your head, you'll wear out your feet. Which do you need most?
  4. WE LET OUR MINDS grow indefinitely, until we believe our wrong is right.
  5. THERE IS NOT A MAN who is not interested in what concerns himself, either for or against him.
  6. HE WHO STEALS the truth binds himself to it.
  7. CAN WE SAY that the visible world is the perishable explanation of the eternal truth?
  8. HE WHO CALLS FOR HELP before danger, warns the wolf when to attack.
  9. A MAN who has to live on the past is a scavenger.
  10. WE OFTEN FIND the truth when too late to use it; friends when we lose them; love at the door of the grave.
  11. GOD GAVE EACH a little flame and a gallon of water, so each can come home under his own steam.
  12. TO OVERCOME MONOTONY is progress.
  13. WHERE HAS YOUR ENEMY gone when you have made a friend of him?
  14. TRY TO FORGET yourself, so you will not remember the ailments you haven't got.
  15. IF YOU CAN THINK YOURSELF what you want to be, then you already are.
  16. IF YOU are a butter and egg man, don't forget that you must have cows and chickens.
  17. EVEN IN A ROTTEN APPLE there is a seed that can produce an orchard; so why throw it away?
  18. ANYTHING YOU DO is only as important as you make it, so far as you are concerned.
  19. DOES NOT YOUR NEW responsibility often blind you to the old, normal joy: the simplicity that once was?
  20. THERE IS NOTHING more truthful than the truth.
  21. LET A DICTATOR beware when two great men agree in his community.
  22. YOU MAY GENERALLY know what a man is worth according to what he does in his idle moments.
  23. IF YOU HAVE A FEAR OF FALLING, see how far you can travel, not how high you can climb.
  24. THE SWORD IS JEALOUS because of the arm that is weak.
  25. ONE WHO ENGENDERS HATE by the sword of selfish criticism dies by the sword of justice.

 

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