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  • #1
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #2
    Emily Dickinson
    “Forever is composed of nows.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #3
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #4
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #5
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #6
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    Cicero

  • #7
    Benjamin Franklin
    “How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #8
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #9
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house.

    [Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]”
    Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin Volume 2

  • #10
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #11
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Security without liberty is called prison.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #12
    Benjamin Franklin
    “A good example is the best sermon.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #13
    Agatha Christie
    “Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!”
    Agatha Christie
    tags: tea

  • #14
    A.A. Milne
    “I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh.

    "There there," said Piglet. "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #15
    Seneca
    “Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
    Seneca

  • #16
    Harold S. Kushner
    “I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.”
    Harold Kushner

  • #17
    Proclus
    “Surely, the gods' judgment is certain. But as for us, we must be satisfied to 'come close' to those things, for we are men, who speak according to what is likely, and whose lectures resemble fables.”
    Proclus

  • #18
    Epicurus
    “He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.”
    Epicurus

  • #19
    Epicurus
    “You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
    Epicurus

  • #20
    Plautus
    “Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. ”
    Plautus

  • #21
    Confucius
    “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
    Confucius

  • #22
    Maimonides
    “Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.”
    Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed

  • #23
    Seneca
    “As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
    Seneca

  • #24
    Confucius
    “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
    Confucious

  • #25
    Seneca
    “It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.”
    Seneca

  • #26
    Proclus
    “Everything is overflowing with Gods.”
    Proclus

  • #27
    Rashi
    “Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.”
    Rashi

  • #28
    Plato
    “When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”
    Plato

  • #29
    Plato
    “Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. ”
    Plato

  • #30
    Aesop
    “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
    Aesop



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