Tuesday, February 20, 2007

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It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
-- Henry James

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There is much satisfaction in work well done, but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.-
- Victor Robinsoll

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Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly farhigher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
-- F. Hawes

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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps insteadof hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibreof a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptationrepresents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured andweathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger thanit was before.
-- James Buckham

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Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the greattemptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But thereal struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is beingdecided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, youshall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be madeexcept by a steady, long continued process.
-- Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Bishop

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there isone less scoundrel in the world.

-- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish Writer

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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to readsome poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.

-- Charles Darwin

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Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let themmaster you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

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Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures orarchitecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

-- Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English Writer

Thursday, February 08, 2007

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"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything: "I will try" has
accomplished wonders.

-- George P. Burnham

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


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If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of
the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands,
but a continent that joins them.

-- Francis Bacon


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Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in
your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry
of life.

-- Sir William Osler (1849-1919) Canadian Physician

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Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our
courage and strength.

-- Anonymous

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There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which
lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles
up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

-- Washington Irving (1783-1859) American Writer


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The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but
progress.

-- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher

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... A human activity having for its purpose the transmission of the
highest and best feelings to which men have risen. (on the purpose of
art).

-- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian Novelist