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- There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet
- If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
- The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.
- Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)
- It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
- Nelson Boswell
- All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
- Thomas J. Watson
- We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
- M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972)
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
- Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
- Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
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