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- A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
- Bill Cosby (1937 - )
- We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
- Stephen Covey
- There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
- Schiller
- Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!
- Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
- Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
- Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
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