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Aphorisms. For each, copy the aphorism into your notebook. Then write a short explanation of what the aphorisms mean. Aphorisms- Day 1. 1. A friend in need is a friend indeed. 2. Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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Aphorisms For each, copy the aphorism into your notebook. Then write a short explanation of what the aphorisms mean.
Aphorisms- Day 1 • 1. A friend in need is a friend indeed. • 2. Better to light a candle than curse the darkness. • 3. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. • 4. He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask is a fool forever • 5. Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.
Aphorisms- Day 2 • 1. If you don’t control your mind, someone else will. -John Allston • 2. Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. –Sandra Carey • 3. Millons long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. –Susan Ertz • 4. Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. –Euripides • 5. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. –Mahatma Gandhi
Aphorisms- Day 3 • 1. Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. –Heinrich Heine • 2. When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. –Ernest Hemingway • 3. Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. –Herbert Hoover • 4.Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. –Aldous Huxley • 5. The most dangerous moment comes with victory. –Napoleon
Aphorisms- Day 4 • 1. Censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. – Henry Steele Commager • 2. I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. –Robert Frost • 3. The first casualty when war comes is truth. Hiram Johnson • 4. If you haven’t found anything you are willing to die for, you aren’t fit to live.- Martin Luther King Jr. • 5. In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. -MLK
Aphorisms- Day 5 • 1. New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. –John Locke • 2. If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorry and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • 3. Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there. –Clare Booth Luce • 4.Don’t gain the world for the price of your world, wisdom is better than silver and gold. –Bob Marley • 5. Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn’t become a monster. –Frederick Nietsche