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- The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
- To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
- I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
- Isabelle Eberhardt
- This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
- Hortense Calisher
- It is better to wear out than to rust out.
- Bishop Richard Cumberland
- I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.
- Beverly Sills (1929 - )
- To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.
- Michael Hanson
- A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.
- John Heywood (1497 - 1580)
- [Water is] the only drink for a wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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