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Quotations from Famous People - 85
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Edward Morgan Forster
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Confucius
The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
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E. B. White
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
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Tryon Edwards
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
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Woodrow Wilson
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.
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George Bernard Shaw
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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Henry David Thoreau
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Francis Saint De Sales
If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.
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Euripides, Orestes (408 BC)
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
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Samuel Cunningham
Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return.
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