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- He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, February 11, 1840
- Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1738
- Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
- There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, July 25, 1839
- Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841
- We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech, April 2, 1957
- The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Conduct of Life, 'Fate,' 1860
- My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...
- W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911), The Mikado, 1885
- Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), 'Nicomachean Ethics'
- A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
- William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
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