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“Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.”
Napoleon Hill
“Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Change in all things is sweet.”
Aristotle
“In books lies the soul of the whole past time.”
Thomas Carlyle
“To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.”
Sophocles
“A good deed never goes unpunished.”
Gore Vidal
“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
William Shakespeare
“One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.”
Paul Muldoon
“O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!”
William Shakespeare
“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
William Shakespeare
“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
William Shakespeare
“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!”
William Shakespeare
“How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”The Merchant of Venice, 1596-1598. Play.
William Shakespeare
“Ignore what a man desires, and you ignore the very source of his power.”
Walter Lippmann