"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."

Lincoln, Abraham on books - reading
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"A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever."

Tupper, Martin on books - reading
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"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy."

Colton, Charles Caleb on books - reading
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"To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history."

Fadiman, Clifton on wine
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"Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things."

Eliot, T. S. on success
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"A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good."

Eliot, T. S. on plays
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"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."

Buck, Pearl S. on youth
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"Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it."

Eliot, T. S. on past
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"I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."

Eliot, T. S. on age and aging
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

Eliot, T. S. on age and aging
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"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

Gingrich, Newt on perseverance
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"You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round."

Corbett, James J. on perseverance
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"With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable."

Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell on perseverance
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"One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve."

Allen, George on perseverance
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"You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all."

Askenberg, J. on perseverance
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"Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment."

Broun, Heywood on sweat
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"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."

France, Anatole on education
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"Some men are so lazy they won't even feed themselves."

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"Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction."

Frank, Anne on work
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"Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes."

Cruise, Tom on speech
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"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."

Eliot, George on doubt
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"Action is the antidote to despair."

Baez, Joan on despair
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"Despair gives courage to a coward."

Fuller, Thomas on despair
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"The power to do good is also the power to do harm."

Friedman, Milton on power
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"Those who build beneath the stars build too low."

Young, Edward on goals   

"If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is."

Albrecht, Karl on customers
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"Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long."

Albrecht, Karl on service
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"You can make the dream come true if you wake up and work."

Unknown, Source on dream
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"Difficulties are stepping stones to success."

Unknown, Source on difficulties
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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."

Churchill, Winston on quotations
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"Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature
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"Necessity does everything well."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on necessity   

"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on necessity   

"We do what we must, and call it by the best names."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on necessity
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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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"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present."

Angelis, Barbara De on anger
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"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."

Angelis, Barbara De on kindness
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"I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin."

Allen, Fred A. on contentment
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"The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion."

Allen, Fred A. on churches
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"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble."

Kipling, Rudyard on faith
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