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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), 'Economy,' Walden, 1854
- Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
- J. G. C. Brainard
- Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.
- Stella Terrill Mann
- A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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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