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“Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without his thumb on the scale.” – Byron Langfeld

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“The heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touched by the thorns.” – Thomas Moore

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“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word “happy” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” – Carl Jung

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“We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness; it is always urgent, “here and now”, without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point blank.” – Ortega y Gusset

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“Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.” – Arthur Somers Roche

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“A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.” – Louis Nizer

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“Columbus set out to find a passage to the Indies and failed; he found America instead. Ponce de Leon looked for the fountain of youth and found Florida. The greatest explorers seem to find something other than what they are looking for.” –

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“Few sinners are saved after the first 20 minutes of a sermon.” – Mark Twain

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“I can see…in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a man-made world.” – Hellen Keller

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“It is the feeling of exerting effort that exhilarates us, as a grasshopper is exhilarated by jumping. a hard job, full if impediments, is thus more satisfying than an easy job.” – H L Mencken

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“Never despair. But if you do, work on in despair.” – Edmund Burke

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“Recipe for greatness-to bear up under loss; to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; to be victor over anger; to smile when tears are close; to resist disease and evil men and base instincts; to hate hate and to love love; to go on when it would seem good to die; to look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great.” – Zane Grey

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“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.” – John Burroughs

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“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.” – Christopher Morley

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“We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our worst enemies.” – Roderick Thorp

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“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.” – Kahlil Gibran

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“A mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the Power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.” – Shearson/Lehman Bros.

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“God gave us a world unfinished, so that we might share in the joys and satisfaction of creation.” – Allen Stockdale

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“I conceive that a great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things.” – Benjamin Franklin

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“Judge a leader by the followers.” –

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“No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.” – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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“Remember, luck is opportunity meeting up with preparation, so you must prepare yourself to be lucky.” – Gregory Hines

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“The marksman hitteth the target partly by pulling, partly by letting go. The boatsman reacheth the landing partly by pulling, partly by letting go.” – Egyptian proverb

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“There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for the poor men to know how rich men work.” – Edward Atkinson

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“We like someone because. We love someone although.” – Henri De Montherlant

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“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” – Dale Carnegie

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“A modest man often seems conceited because he is delighted with what he has done, thinking is better than anything of which he believed himself capable, whereas the conceited man is inclined to express dissatisfaction with his performances, thinking them unworthy of his genius.” – Hesketh Pearson

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“Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.” – Michael O’Brien

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“God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest.” – J G Holland

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“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.” – Bill Cosby

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“Keep on going and chances are you will stumble on something…I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.” – Charles F Kettering

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“No success can compensate for failure in the home.” – David O McKay

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“Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it-Whitney Griswold

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“The monosyllable of the clock is loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.”- Tennessee Williams

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“There’s nothing wrong with being a self-made man if you don’t consider the job finished too soon.” – John Mooney

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“We listen too much to the telephone and we listen too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. a lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing. everybody should have his personal sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive, or quiet and calm…as a matter of fact, one of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.” – Andre Kostelanetz, conductor

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“You can tell happiness by a smile or a laugh. But joy, real joy, is something else, something that only the eyes reveal. They seem to look out and in at the same time, loving both self and other, judging neither.” – Mary Ylvisaker Nilsen

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“A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.” – Laurence Housman

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“Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.” – Thomas Carlyle

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