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He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than vising to the challenges of the age.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.: Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
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Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?: Philip G. Hamerton, "The Intellectual Life"
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People are fond of spouting out the old clich%uFFFD about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. Somehow his example serves to justify to us, decades later, that there is somehow merit in utter failure. Perhaps, but the man did commit suicide.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 08-22-04
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.: Ivy Baker Priest, in Parade, 1958
Don't waste too much time trying' to be a better man, ' cause you ain't never gonna be one without a good woman.: Mark Roberts, Mike & Molly, Peggy's New Beau, May 16, 2011
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Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.: Comte de Buffon (1707 - 1788)
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Our National Parks, 1901
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All marriages are mixed marriages.: Chantal Saperstein
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If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Warrior's Apprentice", 1986
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech before the Colorado Live Stock Association, Denver, Colorado, August 19, 1910
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.: James Joyce (1882 - 1941)
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.: Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695)
May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.: Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey, 1995
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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.: Margaret Halsey