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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.

It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.

It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

It is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.

It is a truism that as long as man loves but himself and his art he can never attain to the full measure of manhood or reach the sublimest heights of his art. He must seek to love men as brothers and art, not for the sake of art itself, but art as a means toward bringing all men up to that verdant plateau where their souls may be fed in very rejoicing in all that is true, beautiful, and abiding.

It is a wealthy person, indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends.

It is best to live however one can be.

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

It is better to pray with good will for our neighbor, rather than to denounce him for every sin.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

It is better to look up.

It is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

It is clearly not the journey for everyone. People succeed in as many ways as there are people. Some can be completely fulfilled with destinations that are much closer to home and more comfortable. But if you long to keep going, then I hope you are able to follow my lead to the places I have gone. To within a whisper of your own personal perfection. To places that are sweeter because you worked so hard to arrive there. To places at the very edge of your dreams.