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Nick B.

Nick B.

Sleep well. Wake inspired.

Sleep well. Wake inspired.
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Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher

The philosophy of one century

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

By respecting the trees, you

By respecting the trees, you prove that you are a person who deserves to be respected!
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Henry Van Dyke

Henry Van Dyke

Gratitude is the inward feeling

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

We love the morning, because

We love the morning, because we know that there will be night soon! We love the night, because we know that there will be morning soon! Who loves the morning if there shall be no night? Who loves the night if there shall be no morning?
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Anonymous

Anonymous

If you get up one

If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.
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Henry Van Dyke

Henry Van Dyke

Who can explain the secret

Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want to shine

If you want to shine over the world, first let the wisdom shines over you!
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Florence Scovel Shinn

Florence Scovel Shinn

Every great work, every great

Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

We are all on the

We are all on the stairs, my friend; some of us are going down, some us are going up!
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Kevork Rafic Altounian

Kevork Rafic Altounian

the best part of life

the best part of life is that one could be quite daring...
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Theodore Parker

Theodore Parker

Wealth and want equally harden

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
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François de La Rochefoucauld

François de La Rochefoucauld

Few things are impracticable in

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

For your enemies, keep the

For your enemies, keep the door open forever!
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Theodore Parker

Theodore Parker

Politics is the science of

Politics is the science of urgencies.
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Hammurabi

Hammurabi

if a builder builds a

if a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the builder.
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Lucretius

Lucretius

The falling drops at last

The falling drops at last will wear the stone.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Petronius says that ‘Mundus vult

Petronius says that ‘Mundus vult decipi - The world wants to be deceived.’ That is very true, otherwise there wouldn’t exist any religion!
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Night is the fatherland of

Night is the fatherland of the great inspirations.
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Theodore Parker

Theodore Parker

As society advances the standard

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Master Michelangelo once said that

Master Michelangelo once said that ‘I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.’ This is what we must do when we see an ignorant man: To set him free from the black marble we call ignorance!
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Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Hubbard

How many a man has

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
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Theodore Parker

Theodore Parker

Let us do our duty,

Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depends on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is no life in

There is no life in war; there is life only in peace.
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