Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd Quotes
Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge.
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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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When you start rhyming, it's hard to find things that rhyme with Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.
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It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great and there is not the time to constantly take things apart and examine them.
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Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.
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It is difficulties that show what men are.
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Between the difficulties, one hides the opportunity.
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When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.
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It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.
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What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.
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Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.
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I never fight, except against difficulties.
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Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect.
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If you really examine your own opinions, you'll normally come up with a better one
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I've been through a lot and I realise the future can't be controlled. I'm not worried. You can always learn to overcome difficulties.
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How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.
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Reserve some hours daily to examine yourself and fortune; for if you embark yourself in perpetual conversation or recreation, you will certainly shipwreck your mind and fortune.
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Be grateful for challenges because... Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then each woman and man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture.
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To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will - we all do... If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win."
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In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.
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Success doesn't change you; fame does. 1
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Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln
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But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed.
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Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge.
