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#1

“Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: nursing, veterans

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#3

“This shows how a man who practices exercise and self-control can preserve some of his original vigor even when he grows old.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life

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#4

“philosophy teaches us to act, not to speak; it exacts of every man that he should live according to his own standards, that his life should not be out of harmony with his words, and that, further, his inner life should be of one hue and not out of harmony with all his activities.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

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#4

“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

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#5

“The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.”
― Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Writings 1832–1858

tags: abraham-lincoln, religion

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#5

“It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: secrecy

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#6

“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: enterprise, leisure

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#7

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: mothers

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#8

“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: emnity, understanding-others

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#9

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: perseverance, progress, thoughtful

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#11

“Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?”
― Marcus Aurelius

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#12

“It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life

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#13

“There’s so much gray to every story—nothing is so black and white.”
― Lisa Ling

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#14

“If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

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#15

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, children

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#16

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: breath, existence

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#17

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

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#18

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness

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#19

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: identity, opinions

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#20

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison

tags: life, paraphrase-of-lewis-carroll

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#21

“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

tags: love, relationships, romance

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#22

“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship

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#23

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: life, respect

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#24

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

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#25

“How did it get so late so soon?”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: afternoon, december, flewn, june, late, night, soon, time

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#26

“You may delay, but time will not.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: procrastination, time, time-quotes

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#27

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: patience, time

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