Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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The function of freedom is to free somebody else.
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Such a land [British Columbia] is good for an energetic man. It is also not so bad for the loafer.
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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
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America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
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The saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities—a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
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Door: What a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
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The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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The idea of calm exists in a sitting cat.
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Progress might have been all right once, but it’s gone on too long.
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When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not more of a pastime to her than she is to me?
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The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God’s mind—a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you’ve just made a down payment on a house.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may be a theatrical “encore.”
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.
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I don’t see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
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The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.
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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
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The experience of drought and dust storms remains central to the psychology of the prairie west; more than the intermittent affluence of postwar decades, it tints a westerner’s outlook on life. He continues to live in next year country, where he smokes a pack of hope a day.
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The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees / Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them unless we were meant to be immortal.
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April hath put a spirit of youth in every thing.
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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Showing up is 80 percent of life.
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Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.
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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
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Luck is not chance, it’s toil. Fortune’s expensive smile is earned.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
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For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.
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Little things console us because little things afflict us.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.
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All blessings are mixed blessings.
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The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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It is the wounded oyster that mends its shell with pearl.
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