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- It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.
- Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
- Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
- Saint Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226)
- I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
- Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
- Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
- Do or do not. There is no try.
- Yoda, 'The Empire Strikes Back'
- We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)
- Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"
- Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.
- The Book of the Dead, The Address to the Gods, 1700-1000 B.C.
- Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
- Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
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