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Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The Tempest'
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.: Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)
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Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.: Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.: Donald Trump (1946 - ), "Trump: Art of the Deal"
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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.: Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.: John Sheffield
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Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.: Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.: Tom Blair
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Life is too complicated not to be orderly.: Martha Stewart, quoted in Harper's Bazaar
You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.: Constantine Peter Cavafy
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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.: Jadelr and Cristina Cordova, Chasing Windmills, 07-11-2006
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He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
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I shall not pretend that I do not prefer to have people adore me rather than revile me, but I have always found that it was far easier for me to suffer the disapprobation of others than to amend my behaviour in order to find favour with them.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
Not going home is already like death.: E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act
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