Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Lost time is never found again.
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He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.
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The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
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To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
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The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
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The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
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Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
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A small leak can sink a great ship.
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When you're finished changing, you're finished.
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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
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The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
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It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
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Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
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Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enough to be honest.
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
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He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.
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Wars are necessary to teach us lessons we seem unable to learn any other way.
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Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.
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Every success is the mother of countless others.
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Little difficulties are made to swell until they fill our horizon while the real big blessings of life are dwindled down to nothing.
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Of all the follies the elder generation falls victim to this is the most foolish, namely, the constant criticism of the younger element who will not be and cannot be like ourselves because we and they are different tribes produced of different elements in the great spirit of Time.
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The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.
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Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.
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The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.
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There are no big problems; there are just a lot of little problems.
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The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
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Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
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There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
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Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount
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Vision without execution is just hallucination.
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But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe within any purpose, which is the way it really is, so far as I can tell. It doesn't frighten me.
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Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.
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When I found out that Santa Claus wasn't real, I wasn't upset; rather, I was relieved that there was a much simpler phenomenon to explain how so many children all over the world got presents on the same night! The story had been getting pretty complicated -- it was getting out of hand.
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To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature. If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.
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There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them.
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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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