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" Habit is the nursery of errors. "

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" To think of shadows is a serious thing. "

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Benjamin Disraeli

" We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. "

" Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. "

" A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. "

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" Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. "

Rabindranath Tagore

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" As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. "

" Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak. "

" I praise loudly. I blame softly. "

Catherine the Great

" There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. "

" It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.' "

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Julia Ward Howe

" You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. "

Ethel Barrymore

" As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized. "

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