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Well done is better than well said.

~Benjamin Franklin

 

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

 

He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

~Dutch Proverb

 

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

~Francis Bacon

 

Remember, if you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!

 

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

~Thomas Carlyle

 

Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.

~Italian Proverb

 

The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

~Joan Didion

 

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.

~George-Louis de Buffon

 

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

~Charles Wagner

 

Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance.


Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.

~Baltasar Gracián

 

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

~Marcus Aurelius

 

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

~Mahatma Gandhi

 

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

~John Quincy Adams

 

Love me and the world is mine.

 

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

~Confucius

 

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

~Sydney J. Harris

 

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.

~Michel de Montaigne

 

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

~Arnold Glasow

 

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

 

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

~William J.H. Boetcker

 

Have patience, my friend, have patience;
For Rome wasn’t built in a day!
You wear yourself out for nothing
In many and many a way!
Why are you nervous and fretty
When things do not move along fast;
Why let yourself get excited
Over things that will soon be past?

~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham

 

We cannot get grace from gadgets.  In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can.  Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.

~J.B. Priestley

 

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.