Today Quotes
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Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.Edgar Allan Poe
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.Aristotle
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.Martin Mull
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.Izaak Walton
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.Robert Louis Stevenson
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