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- 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)
- As a twig is bent the tree inclines.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)
- The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
- Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
- There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
- George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
- The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
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