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Victoria Damon
We never learn to pray,
We never learn to pray, really pray- until we are in a situatioin where there is nothing left to do but pray.
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Anonymous
If you make the world
If you make the world a little better, then you have accomplished a great deal.
113
David Ben-Gurion
Courage is a special kind
Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
150
Manu
Single is every living creature
Single is every living creature born, Single he passes to another world, Single he eats the fruit of evil deeds, Single, the fruit of good; and when he leaves His body, like a log or heap of clay, Upon the ground, his kinsmen walk away: Virtue alone stays by him at the tomb, And bears him through the dreary, trackless gloom.
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Charlotte Brontë
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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Jon Krakauer
No, it is remrable that
No, it is remrable that everest did not yield to the first few attempts; it would have been suprising and not a little sad if it had, for that is not the way of great mountains.
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Manu
Treat no one with disdain;
Treat no one with disdain; with patience bear Reviling language; with an angry man Be never angry; blessings give for curses.*
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a resolute young fellow
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
141
David Searls
Seeing death as the end
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
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Kahlil Gibran
I am one of those
I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.
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James F. Clarke
Conscience is the root of
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
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Manu
The man with hoary head
The man with hoary head is not revered as aged by the gods, but only he who has true knowledge; he, though young, is old.
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Thomas Paine
Tyranny, like hell, is not
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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Anonymous
We are drowning in information
We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.
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Bruce Barton
Nothing splendid has ever been
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance
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Manu
Pride not thyself on thy
Pride not thyself on thy religious works, Give to the poor, but talk not of thy gifts: By pride religious merit melts away, The merit of thy alms, by ostentation.
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Jules Verne
How tranquil is a coral
How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!
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William Shakespeare
Why then the worlds mine
Why then the worlds mine oyster, Which I with sword shall open.
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Manu
Let a man accept with
Let a man accept with confidence valuable knowledge even from a person of low degree, good instruction regarding duty even from a humble man, and a jewel of a wife even from an ignoble family.
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Aristotle
The ideal man bears the
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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Jules Verne
Scent is the soul of
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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Yugoslav Proverb
A good rest is half
A good rest is half the work.
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Manu
Depend not on another, rather
Depend not on another, rather lean Upon thyself; trust to thine own exertions: Subjection to another?s will gives pain; True happiness consists in self-reliance.
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Charles Dudley
It is one of the
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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