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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
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Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902), 1890
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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
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Sam Ewing
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
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Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
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Erich Segal
Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
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Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), 'Rhesus'
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.
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Edward Chapin
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