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- A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
- Samuel Grafton
- Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.
- Anonymous
- To change and to change for the better are two different things.
- German proverb
- He helps others most, who shows them how to help themselves.
- A. P. Gouthey
- The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
- Thomas Kempis
- The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- Who so loves believes the impossible.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
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