8Ants do not sleep.

8An inch of rain equals 15 inches of snow.

8The main component of household dust is human skin cells.

A ruffled mind makes

a restless pillow.

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-Charlotte Bronte

Preparation is rightly

two-thirds of any venture.

*

-Amelia Earhart

ernest shepard

Don't be late for whatever you

want to be on time for.

*

-Pooh

I can't complain,

but sometimes

I still do.

*

-Joe Walsh

Judge not the Lord

by feeble sense,

but trust him for his grace;

behind a frowning providence

he hides a smiling face.

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-William Cowper

It takes a big man to cry,

but it takes a bigger man

to laugh at that man.

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-Jack Handey

We're drowning in
information and starving
for knowledge.
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-Rutherford Rogers

Heap high the board with plenteous cheer

And gather to the feast,

And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band

Whose courage never ceased.

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-Alice Brotherton

Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what

we are put in this world to

rise above.

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-Rose Sayer, The African Queen

jessie willcox smith

Finishing a good book

is like leaving a good

friend.

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-William Feather

Some of the worst

mistakes of my life

have been haircuts.

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-Jim Morrison

hieronymus bosch

You will not surely die.

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-Genesis 3:4 (the serpent)

Teach us delight

in simple things.

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-Rudyard Kipling

Think of how stupid

the average person is,

and realize half of us

are stupider than that.

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-George Carlin

You can’t turn back the clock,

but you can wind it up again.

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–Bonnie Prudden

A man wrapped up in himself

makes a very small bundle.

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-Benjamin Franklin

We must travel in the

direction of our fear.

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-John Bunyan

m. c. escher

Consider how hard it is

to change yourself and you'll

understand what little chance

you have of changing others.

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-Jacob Braude

Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Cuckoo Flower

A gentle answer turns

away wrath.

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-Proverbs 15:1

Where the speech is

corrupted, the mind is also.

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-Seneca (54bc - 39ad)

John William Waterhouse

Hear the other side.

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-Augustine

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

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-Robert Frost

Simplicity is the ultimate

sophistication.

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-Leonardo da Vinci

Today is yesterday's

pupil.

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-Thomas Fuller

Art enables us to find

ourselves and lose ourselves

at the same time.

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-Thomas Merton

Better to live on a corner of

the roof than share a house

with a quarrelsome wife.

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-Proverbs 21:9

There is no duty we so

much underrate as the

duty of being happy.

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-Robert Louis Stevenson

Silence is the mother

of truth.

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-Benjamin Disraeli

There must be more to life

than having everything.

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-Maurice Sendak