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I figure there's heaven, purgatory, hell

and the blues. I've always been in the

blues, just reaching up for hell.

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-Townes Van Zandt

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Do not be haughty,

but associate with

the lowly.

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-Romans 12:16

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Life ain’t all beer and skittles.
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-Horace Greeley

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Don’t let it end like this.

Tell them I said something.

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–Pancho Villa (last words)

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I don't like to repeat gossip so

listen carefully the first time.
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-Joan Rivers

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If you can find something

everyone agrees on, it's

wrong.

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-Mo Udall

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Integrity is so perishable in the

summer months of success.

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-Vanessa Redgrave

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'Taint worthwhile to wear a day

all out before it comes.

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-Sarah Orne Jewett

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Establish the work of our

hands.

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-Psalm 90:17

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Dreams are the touchstones

of our character.

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-Henry David Thoreau

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You must submit to suffering

in order to discover true joy.

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-John Calvin

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Alas, how deeply painful is all

payment.

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-Lord Byron

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In summer, the song sings itself.

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-William Carlos Williams

evan and sarah have decided to marry.

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Come, let's be a comfortable couple and

take care of each other! How glad we shall

be, that we have somebody we are fond

of always, to talk to and sit with.

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~Charles Dickens

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Dream as if you have forever;

live as if you only have today.

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-James Dean

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Weeping may endure

for a night,

but joy comes in the morning.

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-Psalm 30:5

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A government of laws, and

not of men.

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-John Adams

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The image is one thing and the

human being is another. It's very

hard to live up to an image.

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-Elvis Presley

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The nine most terrifying words

in the English language are,

“I'm from the government

and I'm here to help.”

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-Ronald Reagan

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Laughter is the sun that drives

winter from the human face.

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-Victor Hugo

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He was an embittered atheist; the sort of
atheist who does not so much disbelieve
in God as personally dislike Him.
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-George Orwell

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Walking is the best possible

exercise.
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-Thomas Jefferson

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And God created every

living creature that moves.

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-Genesis 1:21

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Diligence is the mother

of good luck.

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-Benjamin Franklin

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I can resist anything but temptation.

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-Oscar Wilde

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Most quarrels amplify a

misunderstanding.

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-Andre Gide

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One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

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-Chinese proverb

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We shape our buildings;

thereafter they shape us.

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-Winston Churchill

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Be careless in your dress

if you must, but keep a tidy

soul.

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-Mark Twain

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How unsearchable are His

judgments, and His ways

past finding out.

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-Romans 11:33

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Troubles, like babies,

grow larger by nursing.

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-Caroline Holland

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Act quickly, think slowly.

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-Greek proverb

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Action is the antidote to despair.

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-Joan Baez

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Cats regard people as

warm blooded furniture.

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-Jacquelyn Mitchard

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I have never met a man so ignorant

that I couldn’t learn something

from him.

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-Galileo

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It’s never just a game

when you’re winning.

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-George Carlin

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Worldly wisdom knows what distress and

weakness and failure are, but it does not

know the godlessness of man. And so it

does not know that man is destroyed only

by his sin and can be healed only by

forgiveness. Only the Christian knows this.

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-Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The ordinary acts we practice every day at home

are of more importance to the soul than their

simplicity might suggest.

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-Thomas Moore

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If it is not seemly, do it not;

if it is not true, speak it not.

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-Marcus Aurelius

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It seems like once people grow up,

they have no idea what’s cool.
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-Bill Watterson

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The truest greatness

lies in being kind.

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-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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A son is a son till he

takes him a wife;

a daughter is a daughter

all of her life.

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-Irish proverb

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Coffee is a beverage

that puts you to sleep

when you don't drink it.

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-Alphonse Allais

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May He grant you your

heart's desire and fulfill

all your plans.

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-Psalm 20:4

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Life is ours to be spent,

not to be saved.

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-D. H. Lawrence

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Literature is my utopia.

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-Helen Keller

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When they call the roll in the Senate,

the Senators do not know whether

to answer "Present" or "Not guilty."

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-Theodore Roosevelt

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Those who bring sunshine into

the lives of others, cannot keep

it from themselves.

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-James M. Barrie

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One must be poor to know

the luxury of giving.

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-George Eliot

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I dream of painting and

then I paint my dream.

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-Vincent van Gogh