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Sometimes a person does not need to be out
in the rain to be all wet.
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Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to
sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
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Procrastination is the thief of time.
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Reputation through a thousand years can
depend on the conduct of a single moment.
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We judge others by their actions, yet we
would like to be judged by our intentions.
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All too often a clear conscience is merely
the result of a bad memory.
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He who accepts evil without protesting
against it is really cooperating with it.
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When a man puts a limit on what he will
do he has put a limit on what he can do.
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the greatest suffering in the world is
regret.
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As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
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Children have more need of models than of
critics.
            Joseph Joubert
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Perhaps the best thing about the future is
that it only comes one day at a time.
            Dean Acheson
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God's love is not that love that follows us
to the border of inconvenience and then halts.
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Do you want to talk to the one in charge or
the one who knows what's going on?
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Happiness does not depend upon a full
pocketbook, but upon a mind full of rich
thoughts and a heart full of rich emotion.
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Stay young by continuing to grow - you do
not grow old - you become old by not growing.
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Watch your tongue.  It's wet and you could
slip on it.
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Quite often when a man thinks his mind is
getting broader, it is only his conscience
stretching.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Probably the best salesman in the world is
a puppy selling himself to a small boy.
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Anyone who says something is impossible
is always being interrupted by someone
doing it.
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Tact is the ability to shut one's mouth
before someone else wants to.
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The price of sin is more than any of us can afford.
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The right time to do the right thing is
right now.
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The only things worth learning are the
things you learn after you know it all.
             Harry S. Truman
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Too often we set our goals so high that
we can't reach them.
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Gratitude unexpressed is ingratitude.
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Profanity is the effort of a feeble mind
to express itself forcibly.
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Poise is defined as the art of raising the
eyebrows instead of the roof.
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The trouble with being a parent is that by
the time you're experienced, you're
unemployable.
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The measure of success is not whether you have
a tough problem to deal with, but whether
it's the same problem you had last year.
             John Foster Dulles
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I have the simplest tastes; I am always
satisfied with the best.
             Oscar Wilde
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Nobody cares how much you know until
they know how much you care.
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Strive to be like a good watch - open faced,
with busy hands, pure gold, well regulated,
and full of good works.
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Those who keep the ability to see beauty
never grow old.
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We don't plan to fail, we fail to plan.
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When you come to the end of your rope -
tie a knot in it and hang on.
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There is nothing wrong with making mistakes.
But please don't respond to encores!
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The world is round and the place which
may seem like the end may also be only
the beginning.
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Use friendship as a drawing account if you
wish, but don't forget the deposits.
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No man's opinion is entirely worthless.
Even a watch that won't run is right two
times during the day.
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A man should first direct HIMSELF in the way he
should go.  Only then should he instruct others.
               Buddha
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The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
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Ah, the insight of hindsight.
               Thurston N. Davis
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An ungrateful man is like a hog eating
apples under a tree - never looking up to
see where they came from.
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A problem is an opportunity in work clothes.
               Henry J. Kaiser, Jr.
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Remember, people will judge you by your
actions as well as your intentions.  You
may have a heart of gold, but so has a
hard-boiled egg.
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The worst moment for an atheist is when
he feels grateful and has no one to thank!
               Samuel McGrea Cavert
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Knowledge without courage is sterile.
               Baltasar Bracian
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The man who holds the ladder firmly at the
bottom, is as important as the man at the top.
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If you want to break a habit - simply drop it.
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A smile is a curve that has set a lot of
things straight.
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When you like yourself, you are in the
presence of a friend 24 hours a day.
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The wise man learns to fall forward like a
good ball carrier in football - to make the
most of every failure.
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Those who expect to reap the blessing of
freedom must undergo the fatigues of
supporting it.
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Temper is a valuable possession. ! Don't lose it !
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A mother is she who can take the place of all
others, but whose place no one else can take.
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"Success" comes before "Work" only in the dictionary.
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It is easier to suppress the first desire
than to satisfy the rest.
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No matter what your past has been -
your future is spotless.
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Do a good turn daily.  If you get caught,
it doesn't count.
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We must never be so busy slapping
mosquitos that we walk into quicksand.
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Say not, "When I have leisure I will study";
you may not have leisure.
                 The Mishnah
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We should be lenient in our judgement, because
often the mistakes of others would have been ours
had we had the opportunity to make them.
                 Dr. Alsaker
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Every man has his own eyes to choose the
world with.
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Be sure to know the satisfaction of deeds
done for themselves alone, without any
desire for reward or applause.
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No man can possibly improve in any company
for which he has not respect enough to be
under some degree of restraint.
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Many of us have been trained not to respect our
own thinking but to feel that we have to depend
on the thinking of others.
                Earl C. Kelley
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We learn to do neither by thinking nor by
doing; we learn to do by thinking about
what we are doing.
                George D. Stoddard
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The smallest deed is better than the
grandest intention.
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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A speech often resembles a wheel - the
longer the spoke, the greater the tire.
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The aim of education should be to teach the
child to think, not what to think.
                John Dewey
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Lord, help me remember that nothing is
going to happen today that you and I
together can't handle.
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A good conversationalist is not necessarily
the one who talks all the time.
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Something always comes to those who
hustle while they wait.
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Real friends are those who, when you've
made a fool of yourself, don't feel you've
done a permanent job.
               Erwin T. Randall
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If you have a special problem - consult
someone who has a special knowledge
about it - and do it on your knees.
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The only things you can be sure of ac-
complishing are those things you do today.
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Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too
much responsibility from our children, leaving
them too little room for discovery.
               Helen Hayes
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A fanatic is one who can't change his
mind and won't change the subject.
               Winston S. Churchill
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Tact is the ability to build a fire under
people without making their blood boil!
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It matters not if you try and fail, and fail
and try again.  But it matters much if you
try and fail and fail to try again.
               Rulon B. Stanfield
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The world hates change, yet it is the only
thing that has brought progress.
               Charles F. Kettering
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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
               J. S. Knox
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If you talk about your troubles and repeat
them o'er and o'er, the Lord might think
you like them and even give you more.
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To profit from good advice requires more
wisdom than to give it.
              John Churton Collins
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After all is said and done-there is a
lot more said than done.
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Some people drink deeply at the fountain
of knowledge - others only gargle.
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If at first you do succeed, try something harder.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished
by the wisest men.
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Stay young by tackling new projects.  The man
who planted a tree at 90 was a man of vision.
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Charity should begin at home; but it should
not stay there.
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One nice thing about getting older - as the
noise level goes up, your hearing goes down.
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Expect splinters when going against the grain.
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To accept good advice is but to increase
one's own ability.
               J. W. Goethe
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Research:  The process of going up alleys to
see if they're blind.
               Barstow Bates
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Many people who aim to please need target practice.
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A pessimist complains about the noise
when opportunity knocks.
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I've noticed that everyone who's for
abortion has already been born.
               Ronald Reagan
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Don't be a cloud just because you can't be a star.
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I think the next best thing to solving a
problem is finding some humor in it.
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If you have knowledge, let others light
their candles at it.
               Margaret Fuller
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Bad officials are elected by good
citizens who do not vote.
               George Jean Nathan
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No one ever lost his eyesight by looking
on the bright side of things.
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Work will win when wishy-washy wishing won't.
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Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the
heart and cools the sting.
               William Arthur Ward
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One day for Heaven - Six days for fun;
Chances for Heaven - Six to One!
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Create the kind of self you will be happy
to be with all your life.
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They wear their years most becomingly
who have remained young in heart while
managing to grow up.
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Pretend each day that the next is your
birthday and do for another what you
think he might do for you tomorrow.
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I keep trying to lose weight but it keeps finding me.
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Successful people have formed the habit
of doing those things unsuccessful people
don't want to do.
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Don't put things off.  Put things over.
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The great mind is not necessarily the one
that discovers a great truth, but rather the
one that puts this truth to its best use.
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It is not how much we have but how much
we enjoy that makes happiness.
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Psychologists say that Americans have a love
affair with the automobile and they're right. I
mean, I'm not going to Heaven unless there's parking.
              Robert Orben
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Natural ability without education has
oftener raised man to glory and virtue,
than education without natural ability.
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The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
              Ann Morrow Lindbergh
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A mother is not a person to lean on, but
a person to make leaning unnecessary.
              Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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Men were made more to listen than to talk, for
Nature has given them two ears, but only one mouth.
              Benjamin Disraeli
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I am just catching up on yesterday, by
tomorrow I should be ready for today.
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I finally got it all together but I
forgot where I put it.
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Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer
at a time and sometimes you weep.
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Gossip kills three:  the speaker,
the spoken of, and the listener.
              The Midrash
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A committee is a group that keeps
minutes and wastes hours.
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I'd enjoy the day if it started later.
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Plan ahead - it wasn't raining when Noah
built the ark.
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Freedom is the right to be wrong, not
the right to do wrong.
              J. G. Diefenbaker
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Put a piece of string on the table.  Pull it and it
will follow you wherever you wish.  Push it and it
will go nowhere at all.  It's just that way when it
comes to leading people.
              Eisenhower
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One person with a belief is equal to a force
of ninety-nine who have only interests.
              John Stuart Mill
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One thing about the speed of light, it gets
into my room too early in the morning.
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Law of Packrattery:  All files, memos, papers, etc.
that you save will never be needed until disposed
of at which time they will become indispensable.
*
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If you ever need a helping hand, look at
the end of your arm.
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Life's greatest perils, like those of an
iceberg, often lurk unseen beneath a placid sea.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it
is still a foolish thing.
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Some refuse to see the light until
scorched by its heat.
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"I can forgive, but I cannot forget" is only
another way of saying, "I will not forgive."
              Henry Ward Beecher
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Although they may grow weary of always
being on the giving end, not many would
willingly exchange positions with those
who need their help.
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Peace comes not from the absence of conflict
in life but from the ability to cope with it.
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It is a shame that when success turns a
person's head, it doesn't also wring his
neck just a little.
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It isn't the number of people employed in a
business that makes it successful, it is the
number working.
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If we learn by our mistakes, I'm getting a
fantastic education.
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The people in your life are like the pillars on your
porch.  Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes
they lean on you.  Sometimes it is just enough to
know they're standing by.
                 Lippincott
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He who is afraid to ask is afraid to learn.
                 Danish Proverb
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Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
              Shana Alexander
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True friendship comes when silence
between two people is comfortable.
                 Dave Tyson Gentry
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A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket
and write down the thoughts of the moment.  Those
that come unsought are commonly the most valuable
and should be secured, because they seldom return.
*
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Cat:  A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates
dogs and patronizes human beings.
                 Oliver Herford
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One can mark the advent of his own maturity
from that Christmas when he derives more joy
out of giving gifts than from receiving them.
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A good sermon leaves you wondering how
the preacher knew all about you.
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Example is not the main thing in
influencing others, it is the only thing.
                 Albert Schweitzer
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When some people talk about their family
tree, they trim off a branch here and there.
                 Lark Bragg
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Circumstances are beyond the control of
man; but his conduct is in his own power.
                 Chaim Weizmann
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Life itself can't give you joy, unless you
really will it.  Life just gives you time
and space - it's up to you to fill it.
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When love and skill work together,
expect a masterpiece.
                 John Ruskin
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I have made some resolutions, I have got
them all down pat.  The very ones I swear
by now, I'll soon be swearing at.
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Some, given the scepter of responsibility,
confuse it with the club of authority.
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A great philosopher has said:  "A man
thinks with his memory."
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Remember, no one can make you feel
inferior without your consent.
                 Eleanor Roosevelt
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"I will always be indebted to you," he said.
And he was - for he made no effort to repay.
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Some are not particular what kind of heap
it is, so long as they can be on top of it!
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"I would if I could," some always sigh.  They
could if they would; why don't they try?
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Life is like a camel.  You can make it do
anything except back up.
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The Lord can only guide our footsteps
when we move our feet.
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The best way to be understood is to be understanding.
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He who has a sharp tongue soon cuts his own throat.
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Hail the spendthrift, he keeps the money in circulation.
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There's always room for improvement.
It is the biggest room in the house.
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Not long ago, 'the good old days'
were called 'these trying times'.
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There is no sadder or more frequent
obituary on the pages of time than
"We have always done it this way."
                   English Digest
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A great many people think they are thinking when
they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
                   William James
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You cannot kindle a fire in others until
you have one burning in yourself.
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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
                   Will Rogers
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One sign of maturity is the ability to be
comfortable with people who are not like us.
                   Virgil A. Kraft
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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward
it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
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When you are 'average', you are just as
close to the bottom as you are to the top.
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If you have a job without any aggravations,
you don't have a job.
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Humility is strong - not bold; quiet - not
speechless; sure - not arrogant.
                    Estelle Smith
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Be brief - politely
Be aggressive - tactfully
Be emphatic - pleasantly
Be positive - diplomatically
Be right - graciously
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He who knows not and knows not he knows not is
a fool - shun him;  He who knows not and knows
he knows not is simple - teach him;  He who knows
and knows not he knows is asleep - wake him;  He
who knows and knows he knows is wise - follow him!
                   Lady Burton
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A drop of deliberate thought may
save a bucket of sweat.
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The flowers of all our tomorrows
are in the seeds of today.
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The most important thing you wear is your expression.
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LUCK is good planning, carefully executed.
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Not all hustle and bustle signifies enterprise.
At times a flurry of activity is intended to
obscure lack of ability.
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Only a hare can reach his goal on a rabbit's foot.
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Opportunity is always dressed in work clothes.
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There is no job so small that it can't defeat
the man who thinks he is too big for it!
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A stumbling block can be a milestone -
if it jolts us onto the right track.
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Whether you think you can or you can't;
you're right.
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A smile is the light in the window of the
soul indicating that the heart is home.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so no one
will believe them.
                 Plato
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I have never been poor, only broke, being
poor is a frame of mind, being broke is
only a temporary condition.
                 Micheal Todd
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Snap judgments often snap back!
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Swallowing angry words is much easier
than having to eat them.
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Good character, like good soup, is usually homemade.
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There are times when forgetting can be just
as important as remembering - and even
more difficult!
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There are three kinds of people:
- Those who make things happen.
- Those who watch things happen.
- Those who have no idea what happened.
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One intent on finding the good in others
encounters fewer faults.
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The best way to move into your superior's job
is to support his efforts to get a better one.
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Happiness is that peculiar sensation we
have when we are too busy to be miserable.
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Following the course of least resistance is
what makes rivers and some people crooked.
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They conquer who believe they can.
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It is good to remember that the tea kettle,
although up to its neck in hot water,
continues to sing.
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If you're not afraid to face the music, you
may some day lead the band.
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A great many people are only working 4 days a
week.  It just takes them 5 or 6 days to do it.
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The greatest hour of man's life is when he
turns a corner and runs into a new idea.
                 Victor Hugo
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Kindness is not taught but caught.
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The formula for a good speech:  Get a good
beginning and a better ending and keep
them as close together as possible.
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People are like stained glass windows.  They glow
and sparkle when it is sunny and bright; but when
the sun goes down their true beauty is revealed
only if there is a light from within.
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Practicing the Golden Rule is not a
sacrifice; it is an investment.
                  Clarence Edwin Flynn
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Early to bed, early to rise, until you've
learned and earned enough to do otherwise.
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Insomnia gets most of the blame that
conscience deserves.
                   Franklin P. Jones
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Sometimes history repeats itself before we
have a chance to listen to what it said the
first time.
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If you don't think every day is
great - try missing a few.
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The only people with whom you should try
to get even are those who have helped you.
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Be grateful for the roses rather than dwell
upon the thorns of life.
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Punctuality is the art of not being the last to arrive.
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People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
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To those who talk and talk and talk, this
adage will appeal:  "The steam that blows
the whistle will never turn the wheel."
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Thanks God for happiness by striving
to make others happy.
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Cultivate good habits, the bad ones all grow wild.
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Man who stumble over same rock twice,
deserve to break neck.
                  Chinese Proverb
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The human mind is like the stomach.  It is
not how much you put into it that counts,
but how much it digests.
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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide
it into small jobs.
                    Henry Ford
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When you flee temptation, be sure you
don't leave a forwarding address.
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The Lord gives us our faces but we must
provide our expressions.
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Don't 'itch' for something you're not
willing to 'scratch' for.
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Believe it or not, opportunity will find you
if you are worth looking for.
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Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is
simply calisthenics with words.
                     Dorothy Parker
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Justice is truth in action.
                     Benjamin Disraeli
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The usual masculine disillusionment is
discovering that a woman has a brain.
                     Margaret Mitchell
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Definition of the word philosophical: a cheerful
attitude assumed by everybody not directly
involved in the problem.
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Have you had a kindness shown?  Pass it on.
                      Henry Burton
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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
                      Ralph Hodgson
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All we know is infinitely less than all
that still remains unknown.
                      William Harvey
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No race can prosper till it learns that there
is as much dignity in tilling a field as in
writing a poem.
                      Booker T. Washington
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The test of courage comes when we are in the
minority; the test of tolerance comes when we
are in the majority.
                      Ralph W. Sockman
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Manners are like road signs, they help us get around.
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Today is the day upon which we are
reminded what we are on the other three
hundred and sixty four.
                      Mark Twain
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There is no end to the good you can do if
you don't care who gets the credit.
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Minds are like parachutes.  They only
function when open.
                       Lord Dewar
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Smile - if you can't turn the corners
up, let the middle sag.
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He who has no principle draws little interest.
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It is a sign that your reputation is small and
sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
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If you believe in the Lord, He will do half
the work but the last half.  He helps those
who help themselves.
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Men who hate you do not win unless you
hate them and then you destroy yourself.
                       Nixon
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Keep yourself in a stew and you'll
eventually go to pot.
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There is no virtue in doing only the
things you like to do.
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Live as if you expected to live a hundred
years, but might die tomorrow.
                        Ann Lee
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It is a good thing politicians don't live up
to their campaign promises, if they did, it
might ruin the country.
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When we do ill, the devil is tempting us;
when we do nothing, we are tempting him.
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He who can suppress a moments anger
may prevent a day of sorrow.
                     Tryon Edwards
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Nothing is politically right which
is morally wrong.
                     Daniel O'Connell
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Freedom consists in being able to do
anything that does not hurt anyone else.
                     Matthias Claudius
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Great souls have wills, feeble one have only wishes.
                     Chinese Proverb
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That which is striking and beautiful is not always
good; but that which is good is always beautiful.
                     Ninon De L'Enclos
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        -=> Quote of the Day <=-

God has put something noble and good into
every heart which His hand created.
                     Mark Twain
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Speech is a mirror of the soul:  as a man
speaks, so he is.
                     Publilius Syrus
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It isn't necessary to blow out the other person's
light in order to let your own light shine.
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Remember that when you are in the right you can
afford to keep your temper and that when you are
in the wrong you can't afford to lose it.
                      J. Graham
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What you dislike in another, take care to
correct in yourself.
                      Thomas Sprat
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We judge others by their words and deeds,
ourselves by our thoughts and intentions.
                      Comtesse Diane
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Person are to be loved; things are to be used.
                      Reuel Howe
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When you have to make a choice and don't
make it, that is in itself a choice.
                      William James
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There can be no happiness if the things we
believe in are different from the things we do.
                      Freya Stark