“Whenever we gather together,
The words are not easy to find,
But love speaks a common language
When people have ties that bind.”
(Uncounted Blessings. © Jill Wolf, sent by Wendy Hinson)
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“We listen to the unspoken, we gaze upon the unseen”
The Book of Tea, Kakuzo Okakura
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“When they finally saw him, why he hadn’t done any of those things…Atticus, he was real nice…”
“Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”
(To Kill a Mockingbird, end of chapter 31)
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“So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally.”
Dryden
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When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
- Bernard Bailey
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“The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
Lucy Montgomery
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“Take charge of your attitude. Don’t let someone else choose it for you.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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“True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.”
Dave Tyson Gentry
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“To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
Edmund Burke
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“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not look.
Walk beside me and be my friend.”
Albert Camus
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“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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“The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.”
Bernard Malamud
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“Quality is never an accident, it is always the result of intelligent effort.”
John Ruskin
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“Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.”
St. Francis de Sales
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“The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.”
Sir William Osler
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“Ideas are born; they develop; they are transformed; but they never die.”
Sir Andrew MacPhail
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“What you do not want done to you yourself, do not do to others.”
Confucius
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“He that travels much knows much.”
Thomas Fuller
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“Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.”
Agnes Repplier
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“A book holds a house of gold.”
Chinese Proverb
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“Don’t show me the palm tree, show me the dates.”
Afghan Proverb
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“You can always tell a real friend:
When you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.”
Laurence J. Peter
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“We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attainted.”
Madame Curie
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“Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.”
Lucille Ball
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“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Thomas Edison
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“A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.”
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“Vision without action is a day-dream.
Action without vision is a nightmare.”
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“The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.”
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“The harder you work, the luckier you get.”
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“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
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“We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.”
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“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”
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“Learn from the mistake of others-you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
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“If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.”
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“We can give without loving but we can’t love without giving.”
