"Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity."

Augustine, St. on habit
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"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."

Augustine, St. on humility
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"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

Augustine, St. on prayer
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"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-"

Carlin, George on evil
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"Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money."

Williams, Robin on drugs
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"Death is nature's way of saying, Your table's ready."

Williams, Robin on death
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"I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years."

Kinison, Sam on marriage   

"The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife."

Angelis, Barbara De on marriage
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"Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on death
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"We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier."

Twain, Mark on death
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"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."

Twain, Mark on adversity
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"Death is a distant rumor to the young."

Rooney, Andy on death
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"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious."

Ustinov, Peter on humor
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"Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight."

Hansen, Mark Victor on achievement
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"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

Gogh, Vincent Van on achievement
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"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

Mcclellan, Foster C. on achievement
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"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

Angelis, Barbara De on adversity
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"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."

Addison, Joseph on hope
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"Hope is the parent of faith."

Bartol, Cyrus A. on hope
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"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break."

Fuller, Thomas on hope
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"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."

Franklin, Benjamin on hope
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"Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper."

Bacon, Francis on hope
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"To live without Hope is to Cease to live."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on hope
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"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words -- and never stops at all."

Dickinson, Emily on hope
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"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

Cohen, Leonard on hope
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hope
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"To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably."

Channing, William Ellery on hope
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"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

Angelou, Maya on hope
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"Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln."

Barton, Bruce on hope
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"There is hope for all of us. Well, anyway, if you don't die you live through it, day in, day out."

Becker, May L. on hope
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"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn."

Borland, Hal on hope
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"Hope is the best part of our riches."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on hope
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"Where there is no vision, there is no hope."

Carver, George Washington on hope
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"The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools."

Confucius on diligence
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"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on enemies
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"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. "

Unknown on friendship
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"Things you must do, do with ALL your might! Things done by halfs can never be done right!"

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