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- The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
- Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
- My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.
- Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)
- Joy, temperance, and repose,
Slam the door on the doctor's nose. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
- If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
- George Sheehan
- The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
- Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
- Saint Francis Of Assisi (1181 - 1226)
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