“ Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
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“ Soften my hard self-opinionatedness, which time has hardened so exceedingly! ”
- Gertrude The Great- Copy
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“ People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ The forces of idealism and realism tug at each other in all human activities, personal, social and national, and real progress is made possible by the proper mix of these two ingredients, so that the clay is kept in the ideal pliable, plastic condition, half moist and half dry, not hardened and unmanageable, nor dissolving into mud. ”
- Lin Yutang- Copy
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“ I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind. ”
- George C. Marshall- Copy
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