Five more quotes

1. It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. --Alfred Adler
2. The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the posessor, if he know not discreetly how to use it. --Michel de Montigne
3. What lies before and what lies behind you are tiny matters compared to what lies within you. -- R.W. Emerson
4. His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world "This was a man." - Hamlet
5. It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends? --Willa Cather

"My dreams are of a field afar" by A. E. Housman

My dreams are of a field afar
And blood and smoke and shot
There in their graves my comerades are,
In my grave I am not.


I too was taught the trade of man
And spelt the lesson plain
But they, when I forgot and ran,
Remembered and remain.


--A. E. Housman

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