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Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.: James F. Byrnes (1879 - 1972)
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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.: George Sand (1804 - 1876)
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Atlantic Monthly, January 1869
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A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.: William Feather (1908 - 1976)
In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.: Dorothea Dix (1802 - 1887)
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.: Lisa Kudrow, Vasser Commencement Address, 2010
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.: Henry George (1839 - 1897)
I was coming home from kindergarten--well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.: Ellen DeGeneres
A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.: Joseph Rickaby
It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.: Susan Partnow
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.: George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.: Anonymous
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.: Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 'Christian Morals,' 1716
There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.: Herbert Henry Asquith (1852 - 1928)
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An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.: Jef Mallett, Frazz, 04-04-07
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)