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QUOTES 2 Flashcards

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Art

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“Art imitates life” John Keetes

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Know

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“Know thyself” Sophocles

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Knowledge

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“Knowledge makes a bloody entry” St. Thomas Aquinas

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The educated

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“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead” Aristotle

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Criticize a

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“Criticize a conceited man and he will hate you for it. Criticize a wise man and he will respect you for it.” Proverbs

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We are

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“We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is a habit.” Aristotle

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The way of

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“The way of a sluggard is hemmed in as with thorns the path of the diligent is a highway.” Proverbs

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One of the marvels

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“One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction; one man’s paralyzing trauma is another man’s invitation to take control of his life. One woman’s grounds for insanity is another woman’s goad to a dramatic shaping of one’s self.”

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If you think

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“If you think you can’t, you won’t.” James Allen

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A man is

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“A man is three persons: the person he thinks he is, the person others think he is, and the person God knows he is.” Samuel Johnson

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Nothing great

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“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

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Speak not

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“Speak not for the fool’s hearing, he will despise the wisdom of your words.” Proverbs

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Life ends

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“Life ends art forever.” John Keetes

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Gratitude is

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“Gratitude is not only the parent of all virtues it is the greatest of all virtues.”

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Preach

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“Preach the gospel, use words if necessary” St. Francis

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Careful of

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“Careful of your enemies, they point out your faults”

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If you tell

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“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” Mark Twain

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If you lack

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“If you lack confidence, pretend and it will come” Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Do the thing

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“Do the thing you fear and death of fear is certain” Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Beauty is

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“Beauty is truth, truth beauty; that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” John Keetes

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How poor

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“How poor of they that have not patience. What wound did ever heal but by degrees.” Shakespeare

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There is no

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“There is no success without hardship.” Sophocles

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There is no greater

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“There is no greater courage than to bear defeat without giving up.”

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The truth

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“The truth will set you free” MLK

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What’s difficult

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“What’s difficult we do it once, what’s impossible might take a little longer.” Herman Wouk

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Experience the most

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“Experience the most brutal of teachers but you learn…do you learn.” C.S. Lewis

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Experience is

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“Experience is the number 1 source of knowledge.”

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I must be

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“I must be cruel only to be kind.” Shakespeare

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A person is as big

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“A person is as big as the thing that makes him angry.” Winston Churchill

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Life is not

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“Life is not easy, it calls for spartan endurance”

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Procrastination

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“Procrastination is the thief of time.” MLK

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I didn’t do

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“I didn’t do the best possible job, but I did the best that I could do and therefore I couldn’t do any better.” Ronald Reagan

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The harder

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“The harder I work the more I live” George Bernard Shaw

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Men are

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“Men are masters of their own fate.” Shakespeare

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If it is

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“If it is to be it is up to me.”

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This thing we call

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“This thing we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.”

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The eyes

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“The eyes are the windows of the soul.” John Donne

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To know you

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“To know you don’t know is the beginning of wisdom.” Plato

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Things are never so

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“Things are never so bad that there isn’t a solution or the solution is accepting the problem.” Winston Churchill

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We do what we

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“We do what we have to do so we can do what we want to do.”

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In the middle

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“In the middle of every difficulty lies oppurtunity.” Albert Einstein

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To know even

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“To know even one life has been made easier because you have lived, this is success.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Insanity is repeating

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“Insanity is repeating the same behavior and expecting a different outcome.” Albert Einstein

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Self pity is

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“Self pity is the most unattractive quality on-stage and off. It’s struggle and survival.” The Dresser

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Happiest people

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“Happiest people do not get the best of everything, they make the best of everything.”

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It is not the stars

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“It is not the stars to hold the destiny but ourselves.” Shakespeare

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The only failure

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“The only failure is the failure to try.”

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Our greatest glory

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“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” Confucius

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Experience is a hard

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“Experience is a hard teacher; she gives the test first and the lessons afterword.” C.S. Lewis

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Expect nothing

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“Expect nothing, be ready for anything.”

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Make it thy business

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“Make it thy business to know thy self which is the most difficult lesson in the world.” De Serrantes from Don Quijote

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A pessimist sees

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“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity and the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

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You’re only as happy

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“You’re only as happy as you choose to be.”

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It’s not what you get

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“It’s not what you get that matters but what you give. What you got is your living, what you give is your life.” Winston Churchill

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Seek not to understand

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“Seek not to understand that you may believe, seek to believe that you may understand.” St. Augustine

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If a man is called to be

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“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’” MLK

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In the confrontation

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“In the confrontation between the rock and the stream, the stream always wins, not through strength, but through perseverance.” Buddha

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Remember this hour

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“Remember this hour of this day, this is the most important hour and day of this lifetime. The past cannot be altered, but this time determines eternity.” Emerson

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Manners easily

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“Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.”

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Circumstances don’t

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“Circumstances don’t make a man they reveal him.” James Allen

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Expect nothing

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“Expect nothing be ready for anything.”

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