CHARLES DICKENS

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.





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MARK TWAIN

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.



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WALT DISNEY

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

THOMAS MANN

Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute!

JANE AUSTEN

A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

P'ANG YUN

When the mind is at peace, the world too is at peace.

ANON

Next time you see an old person walking down the street, remember that they have a history, and it might be brilliant.

[This remark was made by an neighbour of the late Eileen Nearne after it had been discovered that the old lady had kept quiet about her wartime heroism. She had been parachuted into France to work as a secret radio operator, had been captured and sent to a concentration camp. After her death medals including an MBE and the Croix de Guerre were found among her possessions.]

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.





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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.



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MARTIN LUTHER KING

Hatred paralyzes life - love releases it.
Hatred confuses life - love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life - love illuminates it.

Rabbi NACHMAN

If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

SIR JAMES. M. BARRIE

Life is a long lesson in humility.

ANON

 In order to see the rainbow, you must first endure the rain.

FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

We are what our thoughts have made us. So take care about what you think.

BILL COSBY

“Don’t worry about senility,” my grandfather used to say. “When it hits you, you won’t know it.”



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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.


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WINSTON CHURCHILL

Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.

LEWIS MUMFORD

Life is the only art that we are required to practise without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.

Gaelic Saying

Do not judge by appearances - a rich heart may be under a poor coat.

DAVID GRAYSON

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

LIN YUTANG

“I have done my best.” That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.



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WOODY ALLEN

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all these things that make you want to live to be a hundred.




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ANON

Knowledge is like a garden. If it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.



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OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates and men decay.

BILL COSBY

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

GEORGE ELIOT

The first condition of human goodness is something to love. The second is something to reverence.

EURIPIDES

The wisest men follow their own direction.

VENUS WILLIAMS

You have to believe in yourself when nobody else does. That’s what makes you a winner.




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Taoist Saying

No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.





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ROBERT BURNS

Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.




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