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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...
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
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. Indira...
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. Arnold Toynbee
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road. Dag Hammarskjold
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Karl Menninger
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. Balthasar Gracian