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- To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
- F. P. Jones
- Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.
- Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC), The Dharmapada
- One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
- Dale Carnegie
- Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
- Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)
- A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
- Robert Hall
- We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
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