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- Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.
- Peter Mere Latham
- 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)
- The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- 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)
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