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When we do the best that we can

 

Helen Keller

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. --Helen Keller

Truth is what stands the test of experience. --Albert Einstein

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. --Samuel Butler

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. --Leo Tolstoy

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. --Oscar Wilde

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. --Emily Dickinson, No. 1333

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. --William Arthur Ward

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination. --Mark Twain

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. --Oliver Wendell Holmes

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. - Eddie Rickenbacker


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