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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise.
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Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
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Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
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Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.
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Francis Cardinal Spellman (1889 - 1967)
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The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
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Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
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Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
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Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.
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Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
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Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959), New York Times, October 4, 1953
Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.
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Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
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