Today Quotes
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.Thomas Carlyle
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.Laura Ingalls Wilder
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.Ralph Waldo Emerson
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.Calvin Coolidge
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.Thomas Fuller
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.Samuel Johnson
Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.Voltaire
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.John Viscount Morley
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.Hippocrates
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.Queen Victoria, in a letter to King Leopold of Belgium, April 4, 1848