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A grandfather was walking through his yard when he heard his granddaughter repeating the alphabet in a tone of voice that sounded like a prayer. He asked her what she was doing. The little girl explained: "I'm praying, but I can't think of exactly the right words, so I'm just saying all the letters, and God will put them together for me, because He knows what I'm thinking."

- Charles B. Vaughan

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"Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel."

John Churton Collins

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Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

-Franklin P. Adams

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"Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!"

Lawrence G. Lovasik

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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

-Joseph Campbell

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"A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example."

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.

-John Hench

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"The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces."

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.


- Sir Max Beerbohm

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"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven."

Thomas Fuller