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- I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
- Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.
- C. C. Colton
- A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.
- Author Unknown
- It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.
- Author Unknown
- Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
- Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
- Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don't.
- Author Unknown
- He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.
- Author Unknown
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