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- He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), The Way of All Flesh
- America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859)
- The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.
- Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
- Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.
- Frank Crane
- Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist
- Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
- Diogenes
- To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers. No servant or disciple can dress the wound. You dress it yourself or continue bleeding for all to see.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
- It's easy to get lost in thought if it's not familiar territory to you.
- Unknown
- What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did.
- Unknown
- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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