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If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
William Shakespeare

Time, Speak, Grow

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil Gibran

Truth, Heart, Again

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
Mahatma Gandhi

Before, Joy, Service

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm

Life, Love, Morning

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison

Power, Knowledge, Ignorance

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Mahatma Gandhi

Heart, Brain, Cannot

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
Maya Angelou

Heart, After, Write

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, May, Rich

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare

Adversity, Sweet, Ugly

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Good, Great, Character

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
William Shakespeare

Death, Hurts, Lover

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mahatma Gandhi

Work, God, Quality

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
Mahatma Gandhi

Woman, Morality, Hearts

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Oscar Wilde

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden

Success, Peace, Best

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'
Audrey Hepburn

Others, Wonderful, Whole

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde

Ambition, Growth, Germ

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
Eleanor Roosevelt

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
Mahatma Gandhi

Service, Noblest, Sake

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
Mahatma Gandhi

Change, Live, Simple

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin Franklin

Work, Religion, Cannot

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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
Plato

Give, Enough, Earth

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin

Today, Tomorrow, Leave

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill

Hope, Everything, Wish

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
George Washington

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Death, Sun

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
Jim Rohn

Cannot, Sometimes, Decisions

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin

Marriage, Happiness, Find

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin

Change, Important, Long

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
Ronald Reagan

Tell, Forever, Five

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