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I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to Count Diodati, 1807
Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.
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William Raspberry
That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.
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Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 01-04-07
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If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?
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Shantideva
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.
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Meg Cabot, The Boy Next Door, 2002
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
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Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.
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Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)
One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
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Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
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Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
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Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
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Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.
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Kanye West
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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Claude Bernard (1813 - 1878)
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)
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I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking.
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Joyce Grenfell
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
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Ethel Barrett
Hope is necessary in every condition.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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