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Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen Keller

Love, Beautiful, May

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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose Bierce

Happiness, Time, Future

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain

Character, May, Learned

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis

Life, Best, Mother

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller

Faith, Strength, Light

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln

Him, Liberty, Same

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham Lincoln

Live, Him, Place

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Helen Keller

Life, Lived, Understood

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare

Life, Men, Lose

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa

Love, Joy, Catch

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

Mind, Law, Rights

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo

Music, Cannot, Impossible

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Oscar Wilde

Art, Greatest, Human

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley

Music, Silence, After

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
Thomas Jefferson

Nothing, Everything, Talk

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Abraham Lincoln

Men, Liberty, Around

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Lost, Laugh

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
Abraham Lincoln

Great, Before, Here

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus

Happiness, Power, Beyond

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell

Long, Another, Often

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Marcus Aurelius

Love, Heart, Together

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.
Barbara Smith

Love, Faith, Trust

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, Age, Morning

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
George Washington

Time, Men, Free

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, True, Everyone

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson

Truth, Government, Alone

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sad, Often, Secret

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson

Health, Learning, Rather

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark Twain

History, Written, Prejudice

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Mark Twain

Book, Read, Praise

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