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The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else. -Unknown

"There are times when silence has the loudest voice" – Leroy Brownlow

“There are times when silence has the loudest voice” – Leroy Brownlow

The beginning is the most important part of the work. -Plato

Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war. -Milton, John

astronomy

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world …

The first wealth is health. -Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society. -Epictetus

Ty Cobb

“The crowd makes the ballgame.” Ty Cobb quotes

Halas, George

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work. Halas, George quotes

Fitzhugh, C.

There is something in sorrow more akin to the course of human affairs than joy. Fitzhugh, C. quotes

Atkinson, Rowan

Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you’d want to have dinner with. Atkinson, Rowan quotes

Johnson

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them. Johnson quotes

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing. -Hamilton, Alexander

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood. -Hesiod

"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." – John C. Maxwell

“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” – John C. …

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool. -Garbutt, Frank

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit." – Conrad Hilton

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man’s special secret of living. -Young, J. Z.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness. -Beecher, Henry Ward

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy. -Rockefeller, John D.

"I wanted this movie to feel as much as possible like a cousin of ‘Smokey and the Bandit,’ and Burt Reynolds had that sort of rakish good looks, he did his own stunts, he considered himself sort of a ladies’ man." – Jay Chandrasekhar

“I wanted this movie to feel as much as possible like a cousin of ‘Smokey and the Bandit,’ and Burt Reynolds had that sort of …

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow." – Alice Walker

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” – Alice Walker

"As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence." – Benjamin Franklin

“As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.” – Benjamin Franklin

Hollywood’s a very weird place. I think there’s less of everything except for attitude. -Cain, Dean

Joyce, James

I think a child should be allowed to take his father’s or mother’s name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. …

Cockburn, Alexander

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection. Cockburn, Alexander quotes

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult. -Bonaparte, Napoleon

"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." – Martin Luther King Jr.

“We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

You are the land. The land is you. -Merlin

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. -Thurber, James

"It is actually Geneva Lake. I am very strong on that. Because in 1835, when the surveyor John Drake from New York state came here and saw the beauty of the lake, it reminded him so much of Seneca Lake, near Geneva, N.Y. So it became Geneva Lake, and it’s on all the maps." – Helen Brandt

“It is actually Geneva Lake. I am very strong on that. Because in 1835, when the surveyor John Drake from New York state came here …

"Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future." – Swami Sivananda

“Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them …

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