"The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us."

Proverb, Indian on duty   

"When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us."

Proverb, Indian on prayer
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"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."

Twain, Mark on prayer
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"Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone."

Foster, Robert D. on prayer
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"I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]"

Bible on joy
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"You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can."

Carter, Jimmy on determination   

"I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks."

Churchill, Winston on planning
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"The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life."

Budgell, Eustace on wealth   

"There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn."

Proverb, Chinese on goodness
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"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on truth
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"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."

Haldane, John B. S. on universe
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"A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once."

Faulkner, William on patience
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"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."

Faulkner, William on writers and writing
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"The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey."

Faulkner, William on books - reading   

"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."

Auden, W. H. on books - reading
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"Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time."

Whipple, Edwin P. on books - reading
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"Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side."

Whipple, Edwin P. on humor   

"In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward."

Whipple, Edwin P. on action   

"Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed."

Anster, John on action
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"It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on action
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"The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on friends and friendship
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"You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"

Stevenson, Robert Louis on weakness
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"Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points."

Rockne, Knute on weakness
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"There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends."

Lowell, James Russell on weakness
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"My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur."

Arran, Earl of on character   

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."

Washington, Booker T. on strength
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"The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work."

Ruskin, John on charity   

"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish."

Ruskin, John on fishing
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"Inaction may be the biggest form of action."

Brown, Jerry on patience
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"The foolish think that nothing is well done, except that which they do themselves."

Unknown, Source on organization
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"A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them."

Howard, Vernon on understanding
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"The man of understanding finds everything laughable."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on understanding
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"The words of the world want to make sentences."

Bachelard, Gaston on words
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"Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event."

Bachelard, Gaston on children
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"Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind."

Rostand, Jean on mistakes   

"I made a wrong mistake"

Berra, Yogi on mistakes
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"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism."

Churchill, Winston on ideals and idealism
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"Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?"

Cook, Eliza on ideals and idealism   

"Idealist: a cynic in the making."

Layton, Irving on ideals and idealism   

"If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets."

Layton, Irving on academia