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- Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
- E. F. Benson
- Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.
- Thomas Troward
- Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
- Author Unknown
- Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
- One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Rambler
- If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
- Author Unknown
- We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated
- Tyron Edwards
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