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One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.
~ Henry Moore It is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep.
~ Tibetan Proverb One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
~ Johann von Goethe I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
~ John Burrough Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.
~ The Book of the Dead, The Address to the Gods, 1700-1000 B.C. This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
~ Aristophanes, Wasps, 422 B.C. Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a speech. You will soon become an accredited public speaker -- as soon as you have lost all your marbles.
~ Brooks Hays We become what we think about all day long.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
~ John Wooden For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers.
~ William Shakespeare, Henry V.
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