My Favorite Quotations

The first creation of God was the light of the sense, the last was the light of the reason; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of the spirit.-by Bacon

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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.-by Colton.

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A good word is an easy obligation, but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.-by Tillotson

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Give us, O give us, the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time--he will do it better--he will persevere longer.-by Thomas Carlyle

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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.-by Carl Sagan

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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to except anything but the best, you very often get it.-by Somerset Maughham

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A man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies, because if you indulge this passion, on some occasions, it will rise of itself in others: if you hate your enemies, you will contract such a viscious habit of mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.-by Plutarch

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. I call it rather a discerning of the infinite in the finite--of the ideal made real.-by Thomas Carlyle

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The conqueror is regarded with awe, the wise man commands our esteem, but it is the benevolent man who wins our affection.-from the French

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.-by Mark Twain

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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.-by Garry Marshall

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.-by Peter F. Drucker

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To love what you do and feel that it matters--how could anything be more fun?-by Katherine Graham

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The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.-by Flavel

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It has God as its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter:--it is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much, nothing wanting,-by John Locke

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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.-by Beecher

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The discovery of nuclear chain reaction need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.-by Albert Einstein

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The United Nations can't guarantee peace any more than a doctor can gaurantee health. But would that be a good reason for doing away with doctors.-by Andre Maurois

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We are apt to connect the voice of conscience with the stillness of midnight, but I think we wrong that innocent hour; it is that terrible next morning, when reason is wide awake, upon which remorse fastens its fangs.-by Lord Lytton

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The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.-by Billy Joel

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To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to return, is to give one in return.-by Leigh Hunt

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A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.-by Louis L'Amour

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Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.-by Thomas Sowell

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.-by Bob Newhart

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To acquire Knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.-by Marilyn vos Savant

When all is said and done the weather and love are two elements about which one can never be sure.-by Alice Hoffman

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The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.-by Cicero

If anger is not restrained, it is frequently more hurtful to us, than the injury that provokes it.-by Seneca

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Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Diety to be the lot of one of His creatures in this world; but that He has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I have steadfastly believed.-by Thomas Jefferson

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Surely happiness is reflective like the light of heaven; and every countenance bright with smiles and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror, transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever shining benevolence.-by Washington Irving

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The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.-by Tielbard de Chardin

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Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your own subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, A soul generated by love.-by Martin Luther King