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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Mark Twain

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If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

Jim Rohn

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A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Socrates

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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

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For as lack of adornment is said to become some women, so this subtle oration, though without embellishment, gives delight.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Rabindranath Tagore

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The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

Saadi

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

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Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.

Gordon B. Hinckley

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On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Jules Renard

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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Thomas Aquinas

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The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

Aesop

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The discipline of desire is the background of character.

John Locke

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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Socrates

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There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

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