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  • Antisthenes Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
    Antisthenes
    Greek philosopher (445 - 365)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Al Neuharth The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.
    Al Neuharth
    American businessman, author, and columnist
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  • James Russell Lowell There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Carl Sandburg Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Katharine Hepburn To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Les Brown Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln ''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Kingsley Amis A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Chief Seattle A few more moons, a few more winters, and not one of all the mighty hosts that once filled this broad land or that now roam in fragmentary bands through these vast solitudes will remain to weep over the tombs of a people once as powerful and as hopeful as your own. But why should we repine? Why should I murmur at the fate of my people? Tribes are made up of individuals and are no better than they. Men come and go like the waves of the sea. A tear, a tamanamus, a dirge, and they are gone from our
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    Chief Seattle
    Chief of the Suquamish and Duwanish Indians (1780 - 1866)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Denis Waitley A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • John Louis O'Sullivan A torchlight procession marching down your throat.
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  • Dorothea Brande Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.
    Dorothea Brande
    American writer and editor (1893 - 1948)
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  • Al Gore Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Cate Campbell All's fair in love and war and sport - even when you're fighting against your sister.
    Cate Campbell
    Malawian-born Australian athlete (1992 - )
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  • Og Mandino Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Robert Frost Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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