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• Only when a tree has fallen can you take measure of it. It is the same with a man.
• The Bore is the person who deprives you of your solitude without any form of recompense in the form of decent company.
  A good bore can consume within the space of one year, one and a half times his own weight in patience....
• Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
  Jean Paul Richte...
• The last, best fruit which comes to perfection, even in the kindliest soul
  is, tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic....
• Surely every human being ought to attain to the dignity of the unit.
  Surely it is worth while to be one, and to feel that the census of the universe would be incomplete without counting you....
• An honest man, close-button'd to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Epistle to Joseph Hill...
• You look for the battles in the wrong place. The true test of a warrior is not without - it is within.
  -- Worf to Korris, "Heart of Glory", stardate 41503.7...
• That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse
  it has no power to harm, without or within....
• Letters which are warmly sealed are often but coldly opened. -- Richte