B.B. KING

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.

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COLLEEN C. BARRETT

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

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BUDDHA

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but through persistence.

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

There was never yet philosopher

That could endure toothache patiently.

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ANON

For every evil under the sun,
There is a remedy or there is none;
If there be one, try and find it,
If there be none, never mind it.

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JANE AUSTEN

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

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WINSTON CHURCHILL

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.

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RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES

The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.

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ERIC LOMAX

Continuing to hate gets you nowhere. It just damages you as an individual. At some point, the hating has to stop.

[Lomax was a prisoner of war victim of Japanese torture]

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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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CATHERINE the GREAT

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

 

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CHARLES SCHULTZ

I have a new philosophy; I’m only going to dread one day at a time.

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J. PETIT SENN

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

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W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

It wasn’t until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say “I don’t know.” 

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MARCIA WIEDER

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

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EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone unturned."

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Zen Proverb

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

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W.S. GILBERT

If you wish in this world to advance, 

Your merits you're bound to enhance; 

You must stir it and stump it, 

And blow your own trumpet, 

Or trust me, you haven't a chance. 

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JANE AUSTEN

If there is anything disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.

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HENRY WARD BEECHER

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won’t.

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Afghan Proverb

Bloom where you're planted.

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VINCENT VAN GOGH

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

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G.K. CHESTERTON

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

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MAYA ANGELOU

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

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JOHN G. WHITTIER

No longer forward nor behind
I look in hope and fear;
But grateful take the good I find,
The best of now and here.

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HONORE DE BALZAC

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

DEMOCRITUS

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

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LYNN JOHNSTON

We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing.

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Latin Proverb

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.

 

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HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

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W.C. FIELDS

Start every day with a smile and get over it.

 

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