Sunday, March 26, 2006
Saturday, March 25, 2006
John Ruskin
The highest reward for a person's toil is noy what gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Thomas Carlyle
Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Mark Twain
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of 80 and gradually approach 18.
Friday, March 10, 2006
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world, all rests on perseverance.
Anonymous
Just as soon as people make enough money to live comfortably, they want to live extravagantly.
Friday, March 03, 2006
Bishop Gore
God does not want us to do extraordinary things: He wants us to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
If we had no faults, we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
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