2. All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in single
words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
3. The first and the greatest commandment is "Don't let them scare you."
4. No life is so hard that it cannot be made easier by the way you take it.
5. What you can become, you are already.
6. Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
7. Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the Test first and
the lesson afterwards.
8. Work keeps at bay three great evils: Boredom, Vice and Want.
9. Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still
be there but you have ceased to live.
10. In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you
should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.
11. Nobody ever stabs his toe against a mountain. It is the little
temptations that bring a man down.
12. Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never
do anything wise in the world.
13. Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what
happens to you.
14. If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't
get that you don't want.
15. The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure
to wonder whether you are miserable or not.
16. If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star.
17. Good to forgive: best to forget.
18. He who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.
19. I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind.
Being broke is only a temporary situation.
20. Fortune and love befriend the bold.
21. A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will not find it elsewhere.
22. The world is round and the place which looks like an end may
actually be the beginning.
23. It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely linked.
24. I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have known yesterday and I love today.
25. The first and the worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
26. "Be yourself" is about the worst piece of advice you can give to
some people.
27. Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
28. At the very best, a person all wrapped up in himself makes a very
small package.
29. The only real joy in life is to begin.
30. He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has
not but joys in the things which he has.
31. The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
32. No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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1. Clementine Battleford 2. W. Churchill 3. Elmer Davis
4. Ellen Glasgow 5. Friedrich Hebel 6. Washington Irving
7. Vernon Law 8. Voltaire 9. Mark Twain
10. Thoreau 11. L. Peretz 12. Helen Keller
13. Aldous Huxley 14. Oscar Wilde 15. GBS
16. P.T. Barnum 17. Robert Browning 18. W.A. Ward
19. Mike Todd 29. Ovid 21. La Rochefoucauld
22. Baker Priest 23. Goethe 24. W.A. White
25. P.J. Baily 26. Tom Masefield 27. R. Hooker
28. H.E. Fosdick 29. Caesare Pavese 30. Epiktetus
31. W. James 32. Eleanor Roosevelt