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Henry Van Dyke
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
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Biblical Proverb
Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.
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Ernest Hemingway
To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.
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Colombian Proverb
He who must die, must die in the dark, even though he sells candles.
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Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 1 Scene 2, character: Touchstone
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
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Delores Seats
Inquisitiveness and strength make me want to rise above my valley-bound brothers. I must reach the summit to see the truth.
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Susan J. Bissonette
An optimist is the human personification of spring.
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Unknown, The Ultimate Law
All general statements are false.
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Ernest Hemingway
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.
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Herbert Spencer
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making
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