The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Success   
Perseverance   
Spiritual   
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Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
Author:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject:
Beauty   
Money   
Capitalism   
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Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
Subject:
Hope & Dreams   
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Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
Subject:
Religious   
Spiritual   
Inspirational   
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We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Author:
Winston Churchill
Subject:
Appearance & Attitudes   
Truth   
British Prime Minister Quotes   
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Author:
Plato
Subject:
Life   
Anger   
Action   
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Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
Author:
Plato
Subject:
Education   
Mankind   
Ignorance   
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Author:
Langston Hughes
Subject:
Ambition   
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Adversity   
Power   
American Presidential Quotes   
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Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.
Author:
Tim Duncan
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The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Author:
Albert Einstein
Subject:
Education   
Learning   
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Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Author:
Winston Churchill
Subject:
War   
Peace   
British Prime Minister Quotes   
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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
Author:
William Shakespeare
Subject:
Giving   
Work: Hamlet, 1600
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Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Author:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject:
Love & Romance   
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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Author:
Winston Churchill
Subject:
Fate & Destiny   
Future   
British Prime Minister Quotes   
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If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Mankind   
American Presidential Quotes   
Human Nature   
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Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
Author:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject:
Death   
Fear   
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I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you
Author:
Marilyn Monroe
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
Subject:
Character   
Children   
Community   
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
Author:
George Bernard Shaw
Subject:
Friendship   
Courage   
Encouragement   
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