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Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.

Eddie Myers






The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Henry David Thoreau






A rumour goes in one ear and out many mouths.

Chinese proverb






I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Abraham Lincolm






Two farmers each claimed to own a certain cow. While one pulled on its head and the other pulled on its tail, the cow was milked by a lawyer.

Jewish parable






The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Friedrich Nietzsche






Nothing is worth more than this day.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butler






There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.






What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

Will Rogers






The secret of success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.






It is always better to fail in doing something than to excel in doing nothing.






I think I'll learn more from listening. Anything I would say I already know.

student explaining while she did not wish to participate in a discussion






Don't ask, "What if it doesn't work?" Ask instead, "What if it does?"






Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself.

Winston Churchill






We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Lloyd Alexander






A good speech is like a miniskirt: short enough to be interesting, but long enough to cover the essentials.






Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make more clear.

Joseph Joubert






I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.

Eugene Forsey






The learning of books that you do not make your own wisdom is money in the hands of another in time of need.

old Sanskrit proverb






Search not the wound too deep, lest thou make a new one.

Thomas Fuller






How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?






The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Mark Twain






A sailor must have his eyes trained to the rocks and sands as well as the north star.






To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.

Confucius






It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Samuel Johnson






Be not penny-wise; riches have wings, and sometimes they fly away of themselves; sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Francis Bacon






Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.

Thomas Fuller






Train a fig-tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Charles Dickens






A child becomes an adult when he realises that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Thomas Szasz






The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.

William Blake






Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

George Orwell






Burn not your house to fright away the mice.

Thomas Fuller






There's only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.

J. C. Bridge






One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

Randall Jarrell






Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.

Ed Howe






The kind of world we live in tomorrow depends - not partially - but entirely upon the type and quality of the education of our children today.

Martin Vanbee






Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Roger Lewin






Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz






In short, the habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

Aristotle






Find something to praise in your child every day.






If I were younger, I'd know more.

James Barrie






Children have neither past nor future - they rejoice in the present.






The child must teach the man.

John Greenleaf Whittier






Never give a child a drum.






Never tell a young person that something cannot be done. God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossibility to do that thing.

Dr. J. A. Holmes






You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time which the character is being formed.

Plato






Nothing speaks more loudly to a child than a good parent's quiet example.






One thing only I know - and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates






Always be yourself. Otherwise, Who are you?

Patrick Bryson








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