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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old lo...
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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?
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No three words have greater power than I Love You.
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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
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If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.
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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.
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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in ...
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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From i...
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At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenn...
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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, ...
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A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.
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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth wo...
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The one who loves least controls the relationship.
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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.
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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.
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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for...
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What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people ...
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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh ...
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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.
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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live
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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of l...
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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.
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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.
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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.
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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.
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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.
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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Love is the bridge between two hearts.
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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late
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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.
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No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
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Making a life comes before making a living.
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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindne...
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Live poor so you can die rich.
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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awa...
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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn
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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.
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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition
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Life is like a grindstone -- whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what you are ma...
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than ...
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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there
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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and st...
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After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.
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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife...
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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it ...
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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not h...
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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.
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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end
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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.
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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling deman...
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
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Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.
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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!
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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.
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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.
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To a wise man every day is a new life.
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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.
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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to hav...
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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way
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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.
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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.
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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it w...
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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.
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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her o...
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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in ma...
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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.
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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.
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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as imperm...
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A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. What do you...
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I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance; a church filled with flowers and friends. I asked him ...
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It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
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A perfect wife is one who helps her husband with the dishes.
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Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do... ...
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I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked...
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When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did -- in his sleep. Not yelling and screami...
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A good man dies when a boy goes wrong.
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A cemetery is the only place where people don't try to keep up with the Joneses.
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All work and no play makes one the wealthiest man in the cemetery.
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Every day people are born and people die. Human beings come into this world and leave it - most with...
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We fear not death. That gloomy night, that pale-faced moon, and the affrighted stars that hurried th...
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When death overtakes us; all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us.
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To fear death is to misunderstand life.
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Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the ...
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Those to whom we say farewell, are welcomed by others.
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It was once said that if you took all of the people who fell asleep in church and laid them end to e...
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God's retirement plan is out of this world
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You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
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Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewrit...
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Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard...
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The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as...
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Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, mor...
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation...
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoo...
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
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Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves -- that's the truth. We have two or three great moving expe...
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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed,...
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The only way to start is to start.
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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise....
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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the...
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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.
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None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way ...
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Do it now. Then it's done.
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Backbone beats wishbone every time.
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Be both the gardener and the rose.
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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the...
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Act, don't react!
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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.
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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too...
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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.
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Don't look back, just keep on walking.
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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.
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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
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It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting.
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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy sou...
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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.
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No rules for success will work if you don't.
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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.
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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your...
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Action is character.
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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.
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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.
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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have meri...
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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved ...
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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.
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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.
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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.
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Two-thirds of promotion is motion
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To look is one thing, to see what you look at is another, to understand what you see is a third, to ...
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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes....
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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.
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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.
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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.
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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.
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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bor...
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Age withers only the outside.
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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflect...
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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The meas...
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Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about...
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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward ...
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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning b...
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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagre...
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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.
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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.
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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.
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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.
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Know-how will surpass guess-how.
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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed ...
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No man knows less than the man who knows it all
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There are no traffic jams in the second mile.
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The Extra Mile will have no traffic jams.
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The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.
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When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there.
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Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle agai...
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If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.
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It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.
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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.
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Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.
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The best way to end a war is not to begin it.
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Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.
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Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.
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Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.
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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.
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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.
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To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.
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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushe...
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Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?
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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a bas...
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The kindness planned for tomorrow doesn't count for today.
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The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.
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I don't care how much you know until I know how much you care.
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He who feels no compassion will become insane.
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A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right ...
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A spirit to find fault is an enemy to your peace and comfort, and also to the happiness of those aro...
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When looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope
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A fault that humbles a man is of greater value than a virtue that puffs him up.
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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
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It's easy to stop making mistakes. Just stop having ideas.
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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.
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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.
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A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.
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A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.
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