Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built. -- Eleanor Roosevelt, _My Day_, newspaper column, August 7, 1941...
Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny But much enjoyed as life flew by.
--Preston Sturges, Epitaph...
If all the good people were clever And all the clever people were good The world would be nicer than ever We thought that it possibly could.
But somehow, 'tis seldom or ner The two hit it off as they...
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -- Anais Nin,_The Diary of Anais Nin_
If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I?
If not now, when? -- Rabbi Hillel, in the _Talmud_...
We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love. -- Mother Theresa
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
-- Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)...
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined.
She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. -- -Mark Twain in "Following the Equator", ch....
I take a bottle of wine and I go to drink it among the flowers.
We are always three - counting my shadow and my friend the shimmering moon....

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