35 private quotes tagged american

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” — Helen Keller

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“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” — Helen Keller

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“I cannot make my days longer. So I strive to make them better.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The highest result of education is tolerance.” — Helen Keller

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“Silence alone is worthy to be heard.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.” — Ray Bradbury

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“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“I start where the last man left off.” — Thomas Edison

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“Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I make myself rich by making my wants few.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse.” — Henry Ford

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“Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.” — Helen Keller

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“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” — Helen Keller

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“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.” — Helen Keller

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“I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“I am a child of God, an inheritor of a fragment of the mind that created all worlds.” — Helen Keller

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“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.” — Helen Keller

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“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” — Abraham Lincoln

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