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- One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
- Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their children were last night.
- Author Unknown
- So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
- Haniel Long
- Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
- Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
- Johann Von Schiller
- To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.
- Author Unknown
- Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
- John Christian Bovee
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