NOTABLE QUOTES
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"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts." -Charles Dickens

"The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become." -Harold Taylor

"A secret's safe 'twixt you, me, and the gate-post!" -Robert Browning

"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing." -Benjamin Franklin

"Love comforteth like sunshine after rain." -Shakespeare

"Give all to love, Obey the heart." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure." -Cicero

"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief." -Addison

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." -George Sand

"Great persons are able to do great kindnesses." -Cervantes

"We are always the same age inside" -Gary Lowenthal

"Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best!" -Henry Van Dyke

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." -Henry David Thoreau

"The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters." -Harold Nicholson

"Grace was in all her steps, heav'n in her eyes..." -John Milton

"Getting there isn't half the fun, it is the fun." -Anonymous

"Our minds need relaxation, and give way, unless we mix with work a little play." -Moliere

"You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way." -Walter C. Hagen

"You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain." -Leo Durocher

"Sometimes I sits and thinks, and then again I just sits." - Punch

"Where there is room in the heart, there is always room in the house." -Thomas Moore

"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart." -e.e. cummings

"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." -Voltaire

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -Thomas Edison

"The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love." -William Wordsworth

"Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, and I'll protect it now." -George Pope Morris

"God give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other." -Reinhold Niebuhr

"I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet the words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!" -Longfellow

"What we love we shall grow to resemble." -St. Bernard

"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together." -Woodrow Wilson

"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right." -Mark Twain

"With mirth and laughter, let old wrinkles come." -Thomas Hardy

"You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be..I had a mother who read to me.:" -Strickland Gillian

"The wind and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." -Edward Gibbon

"The deed is all, not the glory." -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." -Mother Theresa

" He who would travel happy must travel lite." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Rain, rain go away. Come again another day." -Anonymous

"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." -Andre Gide

"There is no place to go and so we travel! You and I and what for, just to imagine that we could go somewhere else." -Edward Dahlberg

"Before honor is humility." -Proverbs 15:33

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." -Henry Ford

"An honest man's the noblest work of God." -Alexander Pope

"Miracles happen to those that believe in them." -Bernard Bereson

"All wisdom is summed up in two words - Wait and Hope." -Dumas

"Good friends are like peanut butter and jelly, they stick together" -Shari


 

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