Meaningful words
Heh... quotes to end the year?
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. -John Milton, Areopagitica Sec. 6
We do not inherit the earth from out parents. We borrow it from our children. -Native American proverb
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. -Isaac Newton
'Tis now a lip, or eye, we beauty call,
But the joint force and full result of all. -Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. -Proverbs xv, 1
When a giftedteam dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort --it is ready to climb. -Pat Riley
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. -John Ruskin, The Two Paths Lecture ii
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deeds of another. (Qui genus jactat suum, Aliena laudat.) -Seneca, Hercules Furens
I have Immortal longings in me. -William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra Act v, sc. 2
There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. -Logan Pearsall Smith
You cannot define talent. All you can do is build the greenhouse and see if it grows. -Willian P. Steven
What I have learned is but a handful of earth, what is left unlearned is the Earth itself. -Tamil proverb
Win without boasting. Lose without excuse. -Albert Payson Terhune
A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and forever. -Martin Farquhar Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy "Of Reading"
Be careful about reading health books. You might die of a misprint. -Mark Twain
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked. -Mark Twain
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. -Voltaire, A Philosophical Dictionary
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. -Edith Wharton
The thing always happen that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. -Frank Lloyd Wright
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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. -John Milton, Areopagitica Sec. 6
We do not inherit the earth from out parents. We borrow it from our children. -Native American proverb
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. -Isaac Newton
'Tis now a lip, or eye, we beauty call,
But the joint force and full result of all. -Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. -Proverbs xv, 1
When a giftedteam dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort --it is ready to climb. -Pat Riley
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. -John Ruskin, The Two Paths Lecture ii
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deeds of another. (Qui genus jactat suum, Aliena laudat.) -Seneca, Hercules Furens
I have Immortal longings in me. -William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra Act v, sc. 2
There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. -Logan Pearsall Smith
You cannot define talent. All you can do is build the greenhouse and see if it grows. -Willian P. Steven
What I have learned is but a handful of earth, what is left unlearned is the Earth itself. -Tamil proverb
Win without boasting. Lose without excuse. -Albert Payson Terhune
A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and forever. -Martin Farquhar Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy "Of Reading"
Be careful about reading health books. You might die of a misprint. -Mark Twain
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked. -Mark Twain
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. -Voltaire, A Philosophical Dictionary
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. -Edith Wharton
The thing always happen that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. -Frank Lloyd Wright
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