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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), Driftwood; Table Talk, 1857
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Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
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Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Miscellanies, 1711
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He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
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Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), 'Hercules Furens,' 100 A.D.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
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Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
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Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, July 12, 1711
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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
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Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1820
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
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Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926), The Happy Life, 1896
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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876
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Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Essays: Of Building, 1623
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Society and Solitude: Works and Days, 1870
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