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1.1	Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD
1.2	If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. - Booker T. Washington 1856 - 1915
1.3	It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot 1819 - 1880
1.4	He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. - Lao Tzu 601 BC - 531 BC
1.5	Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790
1.6	Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. - Joseph Joubert 1754 - 1824
1.7	Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. - Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900
1.8	It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. - Confucius 551 BC - 479 BC
2.1	Believe you can and you're halfway there. - Theodore Roosevelt 1858 - 1919
2.2	Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD
2.3	It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglass 1818 - 1895
2.4	An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790
2.5	Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. - Emma Lazarus 1849 - 1887
2.6	Fortune favors the audacious. - Desiderius Erasmus 1466 - 1536
2.7	If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. - Marcus Aurelius 121 AD - 180 AD
2.8	The mind is everything. What you think you become. - Buddha 567 BC - 484 BC
3.1	Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. - Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
3.2	Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658
3.3	Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD
3.4	If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 - 1882
3.5	What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. - Jane Austen 1775 - 1817
3.6	Follow your honest convictions and be strong. - William Thackeray 1811 - 1863
3.7	Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. - Blaise Pascal 1623 - 1662
3.8	Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. - William James 1842 - 1910
4.1	Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. - Robert G. Ingersoll 1857 - 1899
4.2	Goodness is the only investment that never fails. - Henry David Thoreau 1817 - 1862
4.3	Independence is happiness. - Susan B. Anthony 1820 - 1906
4.4	Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD
4.5	Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. - Nicolas Chamfort 1741 - 1794
4.6	Every great dream begins with a dreamer. - Harriet Tubman 1822 – 1913
4.7	He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity. - Ben Jonson 1572 - 1637
4.8	Aim for the highest. - Andrew Carnegie 1835 - 1919
5.1	Never cut what you can untie. - Joseph Joubert 1754 - 1824
5.2	I may walk slowly, but I never walk backward. - Abraham Lincoln 1806 – 1865
5.3	A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. - Edward Gibbon 1737 - 1794
5.4	Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. - Elizabeth Stanton 1815 - 1902
5.5	Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD
5.6	Honest hearts produce honest actions. - Brigham Young 1801 - 1877
5.7	An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882
5.8	Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds. - Daniel D. Palmer 1845 - 1918
6.1	Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part. - John Bright 1811 - 1889
6.2	Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. - Marguerite Gardiner 1789 - 1849
6.3	The secret of getting ahead is getting started. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910
6.4	There is no harm in repeating a good thing. - Plato 428 BC - 348 BC
6.5	Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? - Sun Tzu 545 BC - 496 BC
6.6	Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD
6.7	Common sense is not so common. - Voltaire 1694 - 1778
6.8	Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. - Anton Chekhov 1860 - 1904
7.1	By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790
7.2	I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand. - Confucius 551 BC - 479 BC
7.3	Simplicity is the glory of expression. - Walt Whitman 1819 - 1892
7.4	And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'. - Phoebe Cary 1822 - 1871
7.5	Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. - Michelangelo 1475 - 1564
7.6	Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. - Buddha 567 BC - 484 BC
7.7	Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD
7.8	Fortune favors the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur 1822 - 1895
8.1	It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. - Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519
8.2	Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby. - Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
8.3	Ignorance is the mother of all evils. - Francois Rabelais 1494 - 1553
8.4	Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. - Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797
8.5	Experience is a good school. But the fees are high. - Heinrich Heine 1797 - 1856
8.6	Light is the task where many share the toil. - Homer 484 BC - 425 BC
8.7	In youth we learn; in age we understand. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 1830 - 1916
8.8	Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD
9.1	Until we are all free, we are none of us free. - Emma Lazarus 1849 - 1887
9.2	The best protection any woman can have... is courage. - Elizabeth Stanton 1815 - 1902
9.3	Honest people don't hide their deeds. - Emily Bronte 1818 - 1848
9.4	I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly. - Catherine II 1729 - 1796
9.5	Goals help you overcome short-term problems. - Hannah More 1745 - 1833
9.6	Reject hatred without hating. - Mary Baker Eddy 1821 - 1910
9.7	I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. - Sarah Breedlove 1867 - 1919
9.8	Instinct is the nose of the mind. - Delphine de Girardin 1804 - 1855
10.1	The color of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers. - Benjamin Banneker 1731 - 1806
10.2	Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities. - Harriet Jacobs - 1813 - 1897
10.3	Character, not circumstances, makes the man. - Booker T. Washington 1856 - 1915
10.4	You have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. - Harriet Tubman 1822 – 1913
10.5	If there is no struggle, there is no progress. - Frederick Douglass 1818 - 1895
10.6	Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. - Sarah Breedlove 1867 - 1919
10.7	All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. - Alexandre Dumas 1802 - 1870
10.8	Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff. - Sojourner Truth 1797 - 1883
11.1	A house divided against itself cannot stand. - Abraham Lincoln 1806 – 1865
11.2	There are times when the greatest change needed is my viewpoint. - Denis Diderot 1713 - 1784
11.3	Resolve and thou art free. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 - 1882
11.4	Freedom is a system based on courage. - Charles Peguy 1873 - 1914
11.5	Suspicion is the cancer of friendship. - Petrarch 1304 - 1374
11.6	Man is only great when he acts from passion. - Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - 1881
11.7	Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Thomas Moore 1779 - 1852
11.8	Don't count your years, make your years count. - George Meredith 1828 - 1909
12.1	A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
12.2	A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. - Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
12.3	Know yourself to improve yourself. - Auguste Comte 1838 - 1857
12.4	It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil. - Henry David Thoreau 1817 - 1862
12.5	We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. - Elizabeth Stanton 1815 - 1902
12.6	I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. - Abraham Lincoln 1806 – 1865
12.7	Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900
12.8	Justice delayed is justice denied. - William E. Gladstone 1809 - 1898
13.1	Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos. - Auguste Comte 1838 - 1857
13.2	We forge the chains we wear in life. - Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
13.3	A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. - Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900
13.4	Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. - Nietzsche 1844 - 1900
13.5	The boughs that bear most hang lowest. - David Garrick 1717 - 1779
13.6	Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. - Thomas Fuller 1608 - 1661
13.7	The bud of victory is always in the truth. - Benjamin Harrison 1833 - 1901
13.8	Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance. - Herbert Spencer 1820 - 1903
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14.1	Bravery never goes out of fashion. - William Thackeray 1811 - 1863
14.2	Don't let schooling interfere with your education. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910
14.3	Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. - William Cowper 1731 - 1800
14.4	The discipline of desire is the background of character. - John Locke 1632 - 1704
14.5	None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see. - Matthew Henry 1662 - 1714
14.6	Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. - Lord Chesterfield 1694 - 1773
14.7	The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. - Andrew Carnegie 1835 - 1919
14.8	Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 - 1778
15.1	What we think, we become. - Buddha 567 BC - 484 BC
15.2	Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. - Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797
15.3	Those that vow the most are the least sincere. - Richard Sheridan 1751 - 1816
15.4	A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. - Robert Bulwer-Lytton 1831 - 1891
15.5	Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. - Auguste Rodin 1840 - 1917
15.6	The dreadful burden of having nothing to do. - Nicolas Despreaux 1636 - 1711
15.7	Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day. - Franz Liszt 1811 - 1886
15.8	By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox. - Galileo Galilei 1564 - 1642
16.1	The wise does at once what the fool does at last. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658
16.2	Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. - Hippocrates 460 BC - 370 BC
16.3	A person should be upright, not be kept upright. - Marcus Aurelius 121 AD - 180 AD
16.4	I keep my eyes clear and I hit 'em where they ain't. - Willie Keeler 1872 - 1923
16.5	Sunlight is painting. Moonlight is sculpture. - Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 - 1864
16.6	A fool must now and then be right, by chance. - William Cowper 1731 - 1800
16.7	The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. - Thomas Paine 1737 - 1809
16.8	We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. - Abraham Lincoln 1806 – 1865
17.1	Be as you wish to seem. - Socrates 470 BC - 399 BC
17.2	Friendship that can cease is never real. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD
17.3	Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790
17.4	The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good. - Martin Luther 1483 - 1546
17.5	We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. - Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
17.6	Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins. - Horace Smith 1779 - 1893
17.7	Patience will achieve more than force. - Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797
17.8	When you doubt, abstain. - Ambrose Bierce 1842 - 1914
18.1	A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882
18.2	Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. - Euripides 480 BC – 406 BC
18.3	Ability is nothing without opportunity. - Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 - 1821
18.4	All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. - Henry David Thoreau 1817 - 1862
18.5	Love’s language is imprecise, fits more like mittens than gloves. Sarah Breedlove 1867 - 1919
18.6	He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. - Samuel Butler 1835 - 1902
18.7	Philosophy is common sense with big words. - James Madison 1751 - 1836
18.8	Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations. - Thomas Gray 1716 - 1771
19.1	Business is the salt of life. - Voltaire 1694 - 1778
19.2	A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires. - Petrarch 1304 - 1374
19.3	In order to have friends, you must first be one. - Elbert Hubbard 1856 - 1915
19.4	A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
19.5	Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert 1754 - 1824
19.6	An overflow of good converts to bad. - William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616
19.7	Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910
19.8	A man is what he thinks about all day long. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882
20.1	Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty. - Hannah More 1745 - 1833
20.2	Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly. - Plato 428 BC - 348 BC
20.3	True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right. - Brigham Young 1801 - 1877
20.4	Apathy is a sort of living oblivion. - Horace Greeley 1811 - 1872
20.5	The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882
20.6	Prosperity is full of friends. - Euripides 480 BC – 406 BC
20.7	Jesters do often prove prophets. - Joseph Addison 1672 - 1719
20.8	A person’s worth is no greater than their ambitions. - Marcus Aurelius 121 AD - 180 AD
21.1	I got my start by giving myself a start. - Sarah Breedlove 1867 - 1919
21.2	A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658
21.3	Men are only as great as they are kind. - Elbert Hubbard 1856 - 1915
21.4	Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. - Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
21.5	Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us. - Benjamin Rush 1745 - 1813
21.6	All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. - Blaise Pascal 1623 - 1662
21.7	Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron 1788 - 1824
21.8	Nobody minds having what is too good for them. - Jane Austen 1775 - 1817
22.1	Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1831 - 1891
22.2	Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. - George Herbert 1593 - 1633
22.3	A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. - James A. Garfield 1831 - 1881
22.4	He who has never failed somewhere, can not be great. - Herman Melville 1819 - 1891
22.5	In recounting our woes, we often soothe them. - Pierre Corneille 1606 - 1684
22.6	Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658
22.7	No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. - Voltaire 1694 - 1778
22.8	The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another. - George Bancroft 1800 - 1891
23.1	Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depends on it. - Cardinal Richelieu 1585 - 1642
23.2	Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. - Baruch Spinoza 1632 - 1677
23.3	I am a part of all that I have seen. - Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 - 1892
23.4	Compassion is the basis of morality. - Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 - 1860
23.5	Life is only understood backwards; but must be lived forwards. - Kierkegaard 1813 - 1855
23.6	He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison. - Daniel Drew 1797 - 1879
23.7	Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. - George Washington - 1732 - 1799
23.8	Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. - Rosa Luxemburg 1871 - 1919
24.1	Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. - Alexander Hamilton 1757 - 1804
24.2	Wisdom begins in wonder. - Socrates 470 BC - 399 BC
24.3	Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. - Thomas Carlyle 1795 - 1881
24.4	A chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up. - Brigham Young 1801 - 1877
24.5	You are one of the forces of nature. - Jules Michelet 1798 - 1874
24.6	More than kisses, letters mingle souls. - John Donne 1572 - 1631
24.7	Nothing can be done except little by little. - Charles Baudelaire 1821 - 1867
24.8	Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed. - James Otis 1725 - 1783
25.1	Great lives never go out; they go on. - Benjamin Harrison 1833 - 1901
25.2	Reason gains all people by compelling none. - Aaron Hill –1685 - 1750
25.3	Everything is sweetened by risk. - Alexander Smith 1830 - 1867
25.4	Love is the crowning grace of humanity. - Petrarch 1304 - 1374
25.5	Have the courage of your desire. - George Gissing 1857 - 1903
25.6	Love is the river of life in the world. - Henry Ward Beecher 1813 - 1887
25.7	A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. - Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
25.8	Fortune, favors fools. - Ben Jonson 1572 - 1637
26.1	Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. - Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 - 1860
26.2	Creditors have better memories than debtors. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790
26.3	Knowledge is power. - Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
26.4	Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. - Alexander Hamilton 1757 - 1804
26.5	Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519
26.6	To teach is to learn twice. - Joseph Joubert 1754 - 1824
26.7	I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible. - Charles Lamb 1775 - 1834
26.8	Cleverness is not wisdom. - Euripides 480 BC – 406 BC
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27.1	When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin 1819 - 1900
27.2	Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. - John Donne 1572 - 1631
27.3	Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. - Michelangelo 1475 - 1564
27.4	Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Joseph Addison 1672 - 1719
27.5	We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. - Arthur Helps 1813 - 1875
27.6	Leap, and the net will appear. - John Burroughs 1837 - 1921
27.7	He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others. - Samuel Foote 1720 - 1777
27.8	Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. - Xenophon 431 BC - 354 BC
28.1	To begin, begin. - William Wordsworth 1770 - 1850
28.2	Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order. - Arthur Helps 1813 - 1875
28.3	Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. - Margaret Fuller 1810 - 1850
28.4	Love the giver more than the gift. - Brigham Young 1801 - 1877
28.5	Learn what is true in order to do what is right - Thomas Huxley 1825 - 1895
28.6	Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658
28.7	A contented mind is the greatest blessing you can enjoy in this world. - Joseph Addison 1672 - 1719
28.8	Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit. - Charles deSecondat 1689 - 1755
29.1	The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. - Luc de Clapier 1715 - 1747
29.2	True change takes place in the imagination. - Thomas Moore 1779 - 1852
29.3	Persuasion is often more effectual than force. - Aesop 621 BC - 564 BC
29.4	Genius is the recovery of childhood at will. - Arthur Rimbaud 1854 - 1891
29.5	Speak softly, carry a big stick and you'll go far. - Theodore Roosevelt 1858 - 1919
29.6	Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. - Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 - 1896
29.7	Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with. - John Wanamaker 1838 - 1922
29.8	From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. - Publilius Syrus 85 BC - 45 BC
30.1	Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor. - William Cowper 1731 - 1800
30.2	Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. - - Henry David Thoreau 1817 - 1862
30.3	Fortune befriends the bold. - Emily Dickinson 1830 -1886
30.4	Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790
30.5	Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides 480 BC – 406 BC
30.6	I like the noise of democracy. - James Buchanan 1791 - 1868
30.7	However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him. - Nicolas Despreaux 1636 - 1711
30.8	Better late than never. - Matthew Henry 1662 - 1714
31.1	The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. - Niccolo Machiavelli 1469 - 1527
31.2	The greater the effort, the greater the glory. - Pierre Corneille 1606 - 1684
31.3	One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. - Euripides 480 BC – 406 BC
31.4	Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance. - Virgil 70 BC - 19 BC
31.5	Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. - Arthur Rimbaud 1854 - 1891
31.6	Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. - William E. Gladstone 1809 - 1898
31.7	There is nothing permanent except change. - Heraclitus 545 BC - 485 BC
31.8	Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. - Socrates 470 BC - 399 BC
32.1	Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy. - Marshall Field 1834 - 1906
32.2	Conviction is the conscience of the mind. - Nicolas Chamfort 1741 - 1794
32.3	A man's action is only a picture book of his creed. - Arthur Helps 1813 - 1875
32.4	Be that self which one truly is. - Kierkegaard 1813 - 1855
32.5	Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. - Josh Billings 1818 – 1885
32.6	Force has no place where there is need of skill. - Herodotus 484 BC - 424 BC
32.7	Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910
32.8	Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim. - Lord Byron 1788 - 1824
33.1	Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks. - Davy Crockett 1786 - 1836
33.2	Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. - Voltaire 1694 - 1778
33.3	Difficulties are things that show a person what they are. - Epictetus 55 BC - 135 AD
33.4	A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. - Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 - 1892
33.5	Big results require big ambitions. - Heraclitus 545 BC - 485 BC
33.6	It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing. - Jose Marti 1853 - 1895
33.7	Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders. - Fredrich Nietzsche 1844 - 1900
33.8	In life, as in chess, forethought wins. - Charles Buxton 1823 - 1871
34.1	Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. - Horace 65 BC - 8 BC
34.2	Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius 551 BC - 479 BC
34.3	Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing. - Alexander Hamilton 1757 - 1804
34.4	Education is the cheap defense of nations. - Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797
34.5	Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. - Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
34.6	My object in life is not simply to make money for myself. - Sarah Breedlove 1867 - 1919
34.7	I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism. - Plautus 255 BC - 185 BC
34.8	A good conscience is a continual Christmas. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790
35.1	Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. - Oliver Cromwell 1599 - 1658
35.2	There is nothing like a dream to create a future. - Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
35.3	Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. - Aristotle 384 BC - 322 BC
35.4	Necessity never made a good bargain. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790
35.5	Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. - John Ray 1627 - 1705
35.6	All money is a matter of belief. - Adam Smith 1723 - 1790
35.7	To advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind. - Thomas Hood 1799 - 1845
35.8	Familiarity is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. - Ouida 1839 - 1908
36.1	The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. - James Madison 1751 - 1836
36.2	Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness. - William C. Bryant 1794 - 1878
36.3	Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. - William James 1842 - 1910
36.4	To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. - Amos Bronson Alcott 1799 - 1888
36.5	Perseverance is my motto. - Sarah Breedlove 1867 - 1919
36.6	Be not simply good - be good for something. - - Henry David Thoreau 1817 - 1862
36.7	He who stops being better stops being good. - Oliver Cromwell 1599 - 1658
36.8	Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy. - Denis Diderot 1713 - 1784
37.1	Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. - Gustave Flaubert 1821 - 1880
37.2	Advertising is the very essence of democracy. - Anton Chekhov 1860 - 1904
37.3	Travel teaches toleration. - Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - 1881
37.4	The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. - Moliere 1622 - 1673
37.5	Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. - Confucius 551 BC - 479 BC
37.6	I think; therefore I am. - Rene Descartes 1596 - 1650
37.7	After all is said and done, more is said than done. - Aesop 621 BC - 564 BC
37.8	Where there are friends there is wealth. - Titus Maccius Plautus 254 BC - 185 BC
38.1	You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. - Andrew Jackson 1767 - 1845
38.2	The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product. - Henry Ellis 1721 - 1806
38.3	Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790
38.4	He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one. - Henry George Bohn 1796 - 1884
38.5	Friendship is Love without his wings! - Lord Byron 1788 - 1824
38.6	Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. - Confucius 551 BC - 479 BC
38.7	In politics stupidity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 - 1821
38.8	It is the mind that makes the body. - Sojourner Truth 1797 - 1883
39.1	Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658
39.2	All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin. - Lord Byron 1788 - 1824
39.3	Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. - Isaac Newton 1643 - 1727
39.4	Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. - Nietzsche 1844 - 1900
39.5	Cowards die many times before their actual deaths. - Julius Caesar 100 B - 44 BC
39.6	Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790
39.7	Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position. - Christopher Marlowe 1564 - 1593
39.8	A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark. - Dante Alighieri 1265 - 1321
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40.1	Be always sure you are right - then go ahead. - Davy Crockett 1786 - 1836
40.2	Know or listen to those who know. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658
40.3	Do every act of your life as if it were your last. - Marcus Aurelius 121 AD - 180 AD
40.4	The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. - Percy Shelley 1792 - 1822
40.5	The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood. - Buddha 567 BC - 484 BC
40.6	Failure is impossible. - Susan B. Anthony 1820 - 1906
40.7	The surest test of discipline is its absence. - Clara Barton 1821 - 1912
40.8	A majority is always better than the best repartee. - Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - 1881
41.1	Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. - Percy Shelley 1792 - 1822
41.2	I invent nothing, I rediscover. - Auguste Rodin 1840 - 1917
41.3	Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. - Charles Buxton 1823 - 1871
41.4	No one knows what he can do until he tries. - Publilius Syrus 85 BC - 45 BC
41.5	Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. - Izaak Walton 1593 - 1683
41.6	Through science we prove, but through intuition we discover. - Henri Poincare 1854 - 1912
41.7	Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. - Alexander Pope 1688 - 1744
41.8	There is no sin but ignorance. - Christopher Marlowe 1564 - 1593
42.1	Opportunities multiply as they are seized. - Sun Tzu 545 BC - 496 BC
42.2	A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
42.3	A word to the wise is enough. - Plautus 255 BC - 185 BC
42.4	He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. - James Huneker 1857 - 1921
42.5	A precedent embalms a principle. - Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - 1881
42.6	Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. - Alexander Pope 1688 - 1744
42.7	How much better it is to be envied than to be pitied. - Herodotus 484 BC - 424 BC
42.8	One man with courage makes a majority. - Andrew Jackson 1767 - 1845
43.1	If I were two-faced, why would I be wearing this one? - Abraham Lincoln 1806 – 1865
43.2	If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow. - Emile Zola 1840 - 1902
43.3	Never find fault with the absent. - Alexander Pope 1688 - 1744
43.4	In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Desiderius Erasmus 1466 - 1536
43.5	What is right and what is practicable are two different things. - James Buchanan 1791 - 1868
43.6	Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. - Blaise Pascal 1623 - 1662
43.7	Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. - Hosea Ballou 1771 - 1852
43.8	They can because they think they can. - Virgil 70 BC - 19 BC
44.1	To the victors belong the spoils. - Andrew Jackson 1767 - 1845
44.2	The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them. - Camillo di Cavour 1810 - 1861
44.3	To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. - Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797
44.4	A forest bird never wants a cage. - Henrik Ibsen 1828 - 1906
44.5	Friendships are discovered rather than made. - Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 - 1896
44.6	Be curious, not judgmental. - Walt Whitman 1819 - 1892
44.7	There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. - Josh Billings 1818 – 1885
44.8	Consequences are unpitying. - George Eliot 1819 - 1880
45.1	Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always. - Dante Alighieri 1265 - 1321
45.2	Diligence is the mother of good fortune. - Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - 1881
45.3	Quality is not an act, it is a habit. - Aristotle 384 BC - 322 BC
45.4	One must work and dare if one really wants to live. - Vincent Van Gogh 1853 - 1890
45.5	Always do what you are afraid to do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882
45.6	Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. - William James 1842 - 1910
45.7	I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing. - Izaak Walton 1593 - 1683
45.8	In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. - Henri Frederic Amiel 1821 - 1881
46.1	The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most. - Emile Zola 1840 - 1902
46.2	I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. - Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - 1881
46.3	Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty. - Charles deSecondat 1689 - 1755
46.4	A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. - Elbert Hubbard 1856 - 1915
46.5	Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. - Horace Mann 1796 - 1859
46.6	Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do. - Thomas Jefferson 1743 - 1826
46.7	Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. - Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
46.8	Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. - John Lubbock 1834 - 1913
47.1	Stronger by weakness, wiser men become. - Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797
47.2	The game is never lost till won. - George Crabbe 1754 - 1832
47.3	Friendship is essentially a partnership. - Aristotle 384 BC - 322 BC
47.4	Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. - William James 1842 - 1910
47.5	Live your life and forget your age. - Jean Paul 1763 - 1825
47.6	Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. - Martin Luther 1483 - 1546
47.7	He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted. - Fredrich Nietzsche 1844 - 1900
47.8	As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882
48.1	The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it. - Emile Zola 1840 - 1902
48.2	Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. - Henry Ward Beecher 1813 - 1887
48.3	Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658
48.4	Truth springs from argument amongst friends. - David Hume 1711 - 1776
48.5	He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. - John Fletcher 1579 - 1625
48.6	Ambition is not a vice of little people. - Michel de Montaigne 1533 - 1592
48.7	Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. - Thomas Jefferson 1743 - 1826
48.8	You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. - Heinrich Heine 1797 - 1856
49.1	Nothing great has ever been accomplished without passion. - Georg Hegel 1770 - 1831
49.2	Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. - Blaise Pascal 1623 - 1662
49.3	I could never hate anyone I really know. - Charles Lamb 1775 - 1834
49.4	Prevention is better than cure. - Desiderius Erasmus 1466 - 1536
49.5	All things are difficult before they are easy. - Thomas Fuller 1608 - 1661
49.6	A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. - David Hume 1711 - 1776
49.7	Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. - William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616
49.8	Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. - George Washington - 1732 - 1799
50.1	A penny saved is a penny earned. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790
50.2	Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. - Christopher Marlowe 1564 - 1593
50.3	If you enjoy what you do, you'll never work another day in your life. - Confucius 551 BC - 479 BC
50.4	Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way. - George Crabbe 1754 - 1832
50.5	The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed. - Richard Sheridan 1751 - 1816
50.6	Self-confidence is the first step to great undertakings. - Samuel Johnson 1709 - 1784
50.7	Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. - Horace Mann 1796 - 1859
50.8	Character is much easier kept than recovered. - Thomas Paine 1737 - 1809
51.1	What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. - Abraham Lincoln 1806 – 1865
51.2	Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. - Confucius 551 BC - 479 BC
51.3	That which is everybody's business is nobody's business. - Izaak Walton 1593 - 1683
51.4	A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. - Homer 484 BC - 425 BC
51.5	I would rather make my name than inherit it. - William Thackeray 1811 - 1863
51.6	There is no greater harm than that of time wasted. - Michelangelo 1475 - 1564
51.7	Every dog is a lion at home. - Henry George Bohn 1796 - 1884
51.8	Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! - Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
52.1	Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy. - Giovanni Boccaccio 1313 - 1375
52.2	Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy. - Lao Tzu 601 BC - 531 BC
52.3	The mill cannot grind with the water that is past. - Daniel D. Palmer 1845 - 1918
52.4	Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. - Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 - 1892
52.5	Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. - Lord Chesterfield 1694 - 1773
52.6	To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly. - William Samuel Johnson 1727 - 1819
52.7	If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. - Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 - 1821
52.8	If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? - Percy Shelley 1792 - 1822

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