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Benjamin Franklin


He that can have patience can have what he will.

Eric Hoffer


In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

W. S. Gilbert


When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

John Quincy Adams


America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.

Arthur Miller


A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

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Mrs. Stowe


Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

Evan Esar


A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


When I was a child, there were times when we had to entertain ourselves. And usually the best way to do that was to turn on the TV.

Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus


The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.

William Goldman, The Princess Bride


Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876


Every artist was first an amateur.

Homer, The Odyssey


Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.

Chinese Proverb


When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.

Samuel Butler


For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Samuel Cunningham


Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return.

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Anonymous


A guilty conscience needs no accuser.

Alfred Lord Tennyson


Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

Leo Tolstoy


The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Samuel Johnson


Hope is necessary in every condition.

Michael Korda


Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Romanian Proverb


When a thing is done, advice comes too late.

Saint Francis of Assisi


Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy.

Stanley Kunitz, O Magazine, September 2003


What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

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Bouilly


Whatever we possess becomes of double value When we have the opportunity of sharing it with others.

Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992


Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can�t be taken on its own merits.

A. L. Kitselman


The words 'I am...' are potent words be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.

Honore de Balzac


No man should marry before he has studied anatomy and dissected the body of a woman.

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Mark S. Hertzog


There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.

Bill Watterson


I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. - Calvin

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.

Charles V


Name me and emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

Thomas Alva Edison


Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Eugene McCarthy


The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

G. K. Chesterton


There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Peter Drucker


There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

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