Today Quotes
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When in doubt, tell the truth.Mark Twain
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!William Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.Joseph Addison
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.Joseph Addison
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.Ansel Adams
The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.G. K. Chesterton
It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others.Lewis Carroll
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.Henry Ford
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.Sir Winston Churchill
The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.Publilius Syrus