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Storms make oaks take deeper root.
- George Herbert

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
- Cicero

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- The Dalai Lama

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
- H. G. Wells

Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
- Seneca

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
- Abraham Lincoln

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
- Don Marquis

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
- Plato

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10 Quotes

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.. -  Charlie Chaplin Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you. - Calvin Coolidge Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. - John Russell An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. - G. K. Chesterton Humankind cannot stand very much reality. - T. S. Eliot The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. - Nancy Astor Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world. - Arthur Schopenhauer In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. - Franklin D. Roosevelt Life is like playi...
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