Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
in Ambrose Bierce QuotesSpeak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
in Ambrose Bierce QuotesPAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy. The Past is the region of sobs, the Future is the realm of song. In the one crouches Memory, clad in sackcloth and ashes, mumbling penitential prayer. in the sunshine of the other Hope flies with a free wing, beckoning to temples of success and bowers of ease. Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one --the knowledge and the dream.
in Ambrose Bierce QuotesA total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
in Ambrose Bierce QuotesGENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
in Ambrose Bierce QuotesIt was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
in Ambrose Bierce QuotesVote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
in Ambrose Bierce QuotesOUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment. By the kind of intelligence that sees in an exception a proof of the rule the wisdom of an act is judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense. the wisdom of an act is to be judged by the light that the doer had when he performed it.
in Ambrose Bierce QuotesWho never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
in Ambrose Bierce QuotesHappiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
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