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| Poetry and Writings Index Spiritual Quotes 7 |
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| "When life itself
seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical
is madness. To surrender dreams - this may be madness. To seek treasure
where there is only trash. Too much sanity may be madness. And the maddest
of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be." -Cervantes " A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows." St. Francis of Assisi "A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady." Voltaire "The more noise a man or a motor makes the less power there is available." W. R. McGeary "How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people." Edward F. Benson "The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears." A. C. Benson "A man's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character -- how he makes it and how he spends it." James Moffatt I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather ... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. [he he !!! } |
| "If your mind
isn't open, keep your mouth shut too." - Sue Grafton, M is for
Malice "Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art." Bliss Carman We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart? "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 "Genius is enternal patience." Michaelangelo "If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride." Gilbert K. Chesterton "Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought." John Charles Salak "If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot." Bunyan "Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does." Josh Billings "A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led." Alexander Cannon "We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away." Plutarch "He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes." Chinese Proverb "We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns." Orison S. Marden "No one grows old by living -- only be losing interest in living." Marie Ray |