Puck's Quote Board, page 37
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’Tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No one is free who is not a master of himself.
Speaker: William ShakespearePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Just because we have taken one step down a wrong road is no reason why we have to take two.
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Reading is not a substitute for experience; neither is experience a substitute for reading.
Speaker: Aldous HuxleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are two kinds of failures: the man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
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To err is human,
To forgive takes restraint;
To forget you forgave
Is the mark of a Saint.Speaker: Suzanne DouglasPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The man who never makes mistakes loses a great many chances to learn something.
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’I can forgive, but I cannot forget,’ is only another way of saying, ‘I cannot forgive.’
Speaker: Henry Ward BeecherPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Do not wish to be anything but what you are – and try to be that perfectly.
Speaker: Francis de SalesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The chief vice of many people consists not in doing evil, but in permitting it.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:12 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When in doubt, speak the truth.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Speaker: SocratesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
True bravery is shown by performing with no witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
Speaker: Francois de la RouchefoucaldPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.
Speaker: GoethePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:09 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Most people don’t plan to fail – they just fail to plan.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Speaker: Francis BaconPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man who is young in age may still be old and experienced, if he has lost no time.
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On those occasions when you don’t feel like praying, you should get on your knees and pray until you feel like praying.
Speaker: Brigham YoungPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!