Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford (1863-1947)
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Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.
Ogden Nash

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
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When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have f

Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Chr

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly ar

A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it’s easy to exchange.
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  If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days

May brooks and trees and singing hills,Join in the chorus too,And every gentle wind that blows,Send

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I
may not reach them, but I can look up and see

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“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”

“If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.”

“Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”

“There ain’t no such thing as wrong food.”

“Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.”

“Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.”

“A schedule defends from chaos and whim.”

“I don’t hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.”

“Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.”

“Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.”

“Mach-S, the speed at which stress can’t keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self- propelled. Note that people in cars are still stressed.”

“Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.”

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“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 82) U.S. essayist, poet, and orator

“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
William Blake (1757 – 1827) English poet and painter

“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”
Simone Weil (1909 – 43) French philosopher and mystic

“Doing the things we do now and doing them better, cheaper and faster will take us so far. But it will not take us far enough. We’re going to have to do new things in new ways.”
Peter Bonfield (b. 1944) British C.E.O. of British Telecom

“The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.”
Gail Sheehy (b. 1937) U.S. writer and lecturer

“If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.”
Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832 – 1912)…

“Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.”
Tillie Olsen (1913 - 2007) U.S. writer

“Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 – 68) U.S. civil rights leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

“I don’t suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.”
Florence King (b. 1936) U.S. novelist and columnist

“The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe that experience is a substitute for intelligence.”
Lyman Bryson (1888 – 1959) U.S. educator

“I often think it’s comical
How Nature always does contrive
That every boy and every gal
That’s born into the world alive
Is either a little Liberal
Or else a little Conservative!”
W. S. Gilbert (1836 – 1911) British dramatist and librettist

“The advantage of doing one’s praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.”
Samuel Butler (1835 – 1902) British writer

“Every man desires to live long but no man would be old.”
Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) Irish writer and satirist

“Have you noticed … there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.”
Max Beerbohm (1872 – 1956) English writer