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The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

—Jane Austen

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I cannot live without books.

—Thomas Jefferson

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It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.

—Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

—Howard Thurman

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Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.

—Lord Chesterfield

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My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.

—Gordon Atkinson

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When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

—Theodore Roosevelt

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I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.

—Hadewijch of Antwerp

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because it doesn't come from inside.

—Chris Messina

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Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.

—Gordon Atkinson

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The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.

—Randy K. Milholland

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One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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