Age
It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
-Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Beauty
The gates are open on the road
That leads to beauty and to God.
-Charles Sorley
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Books
When we are collecting books,
wwe are collecting happiness.
-Vincent Starrett
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Challenge
Once to every man and nation
comes the moment to decide.
-James Russell Lowell
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Character
It is not what he has, nor even
wwhat he does, which directly effects
the worth of a man; but what he is.
-Henri-Frederic Amiel
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Consolation
Heaven knows we may never be ashamed
of our tears, for they are the rain
upon the blinding dust of earth,
overlying our hard hearts.
-Charles Dickens
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Contentment
The great essentials in life are
something to do, something to love,
something to hope for.
-Thomas Chalmers
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Courage
One man with courage makes a majority.
-Andrew Jackson
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Death
Death is the golden key that
opens the palace of eternity.
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Defeat
There is always another chance...
This thing that we call "failure"
is not falling down, but staying down.
-Mary Pickford
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Faith
Faith is to believe what we do not see,
and the reward of this faith is to see
wwhat we believe.
-St. Augustine
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Friendship
Art thou lonely, O my brother?
Share thy little with another!
Stretch a hand to one unfriended,
And thy loneliness is ended.
-John Oxenham
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Gratitude
Gratitude is the fairest blossom
wwhich springs from the soul.
-Ballou
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Happiness
Happiness is a perfume you cannot
pour on others without getting a few
drops on yourself.
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Home
He is happiest, be he king or peasant,
wwho finds peace in his home.
-Goethe
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Hope
Hope is like the sun, which, as we
jjourney toward it, casts the shadow
of our burden behind us.
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Humility
And whosoever be chief among you,
let him be your servant.
-Matthew 20:27
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Life
Life is measured not by accumulation
but by outlay; not by how much saved,
but by how much expended; not by distance
traveled, but by the road taken.

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Love
Love is friendship set to music.
-Pollock
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Memory
When time, which steals our years away,
Shall steal our pleasures to;
The memory of the past will stay
And half our joys renew.
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Music
What joy to capture song from sound
and send it throbbing through the
hearts of men.
-Emily Selinger
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Opportunity
The greatest achievement of the human
spirit is to live up to ones opportunities
and make the most of ones resources.
-Vauvenargues
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Patience
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
-Jean J. Rousseau
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Patriotism
Gold is good in it's place, but living,
brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Religion
The study of Gods' word for the purpose
of discovering Gods' will is the secret
discipline which has formed the greatest
characters.
-J.W. Alexander
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Struggle
Amid my list of blessings infinite,
Stands this the foremost, "That my
heart has bled."
-Edward Young
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Success
Men were born to succeed, not to fail.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Youth
You can never have a greater or less
domination than that over yourself.
-Leonardo Da Vinci