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- Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.
- The Book of the Dead, The Address to the Gods, 1700-1000 B.C.
- Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
- Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
- I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
- Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
- Madonna (1958 - )
- The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
- William Cowper (1731 - 1800)
- Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
- Kenneth Hildebrand
- Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851)
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