“ Absence makes the heart grow fonder: Isle of Beauty, fare thee well! ”
- Thomas Haynes Bayly- Copy
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“ Everything is perfect in the universe — even your desire to improve it. ”
- Wayne Dyer- Copy
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“ The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. ”
- James Allen- Copy
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“ This became a credo of mine…attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. ”
- Bette Davis- Copy
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“ Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ Our lives improve only when we take chances — and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. ”
- Walter Anderson- Copy
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“ Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it. ”
- Marianne Williamson- Copy
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“ Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul. ”
- John Muir- Copy
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“ They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
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“ One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above the little things. ”
- John Burroughs- Copy
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“ Hope, of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure. ”
- Abraham Cowley- Copy
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“ He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear That which disfigures it. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, an herb most bruised is woman. ”
- Euripides- Copy
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“ That is my major preoccupation — memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it. ”
- Elie Wiesel- Copy
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“ Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ We are pleased with the progress of our international operations, whilst we remain cautious about prospects in the UK, where we have experienced the slowdown in consumer expenditure. ”
- John Clare- Copy
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“ You would think four years after 9/11 with billions of dollars spent to improve our emergency preparedness that the response to Katrina would be far crisper, far better coordinated and not marred by failures at all levels of government. ”
- Susan Collins- Copy
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“ We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
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“ How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ”
- Anne Frank- Copy
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“ There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. ”
- Thomas B. Macaulay- Copy
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