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- There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace in it.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Life affords no higher pleasure than that of summoning difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The only way to be absolutely safe is never to try anything for the first time.
- Magnes Pyke
- Pure and complete sorrow is about as impossible as pure and complete joy.
- Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
- The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
- If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
- John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937)
- It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- If only I could stand on a street corner with my hat in my hand, and get people to throw their wasted time into it!
- Bernard Berenson (1865 - 1959)
- The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
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