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- Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years.
- Author Unknown
- I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The written word can be erased - not so with the spoken word.
- Author Unknown
- To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.
- Thomas A. Buckner
- When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.
- Author Unknown
- One thing you can give and still keep is your word.
- Author Unknown
- Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.
- Noah Webster
- Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
- Edward Thorndike
- In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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