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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), 'Ten Mills,' A Further Range, 1936
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It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.: Frank Duff, A Coder in Courierland, 03-20-05
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Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), Song of the Open Road
Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.: Tina Fey, Vogue Interview, 2010
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It is never too late to give up our prejudices.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), 'Economy,' Walden, 1854
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Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.: J. G. C. Brainard
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Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.: Stella Terrill Mann
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A good listener is usually thinking about something else.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), My Early Life, 1930
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.: Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683), The Compleat Angler, 1653
A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.: Marie De France, 12th Century
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.: Berthold Auerbach (1812 - 1882)
Never give a child a sword.: Latin Proverb
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.: Antonia Brenner
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.: Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
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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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