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I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again. Anne Frank

Death Hope Peace Confusion Will Build Think Hopes Misery Simply Return Tranquillity Again Foundation

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions. Charles Caleb Colton

Loudest Those Weakest Threats Actions

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart. Daisaku Ikeda

Hope Heart Courage Compassion Accident Destroy Highest Disaster Qualities Greater Tragic Than Human Human Qualities Even Treasures

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process. Dave Pelzer

You Lose Others Please Hopes Accepted Self-Worth Being Process

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Elbert Hubbard

Work Technology Man Men Extraordinary Machine Ordinary Ordinary Man Ordinary Men Fifty

Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly. Ellen G. White

Music Good Blessing Satan Pride Made Vanity Folly Leads Abuse Most Attractive Souls Account Agencies Turned

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength. Eric Hoffer

Strength Rudeness Imitation Weak

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Impossible Will Nothing Nothing Is Impossible Everything Say Ways Lead Had Merely Excuse Always Often Should Means Sufficient Things

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Cheese Silent Poets Been Subject

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer. Helen Hunt Jackson

Best Weather Autumn September Summer Days Cheer Lovely Here

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever. Henry Drummond

Love Live Abundant Forever To Love

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. Jane Austen

Words Pride Think Vain Others Relates Our Though Ourselves Would Vanity More Without Opinion Proud Person May Often Being Different Us Used Different Things Things

Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless. Jeffrey Kluger

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. Jonathan Swift

Man Age Old Long Live Every Wishes Every Man Desires

I may be what my enemies desire me to be, yet never an accusation are they able to hurl against me which makes me blush or lower my forehead; and I hope that God will be merciful enough with me, to prevent me from committing one of those faults which would involve my family. Jose Rizal

Hope God Family Me Enemies Will Enough Faults Those Would Hurl Able Prevent Never Merciful Involve Makes Forehead Accusation May Committing Blush Which Against Lower Desire

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is. Joss Whedon

Light Hero Before Gone Digging About He Like Look Make Make Up Because End Up End Of The Tunnel Trying Going Just Just Because Tunnel Who Even Keep Right Thing

Good manners are cost effective. They not only increase the quality of life in the workplace, they contribute to employee morale, embellish the company image, and play a major role in generating profit. Letitia Baldrige

Life Good Quality Manners Profit Increase Good Manners Embellish Morale Cost Cost-Effective Only Generating Major Employee Major Role Quality Of Life Effective Role Contribute Workplace Company Play Image

There's no such thing as being too Southern. Lewis Grizzard

Too Southern Being Thing

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it. Minna Antrim

Religion Hypocrite Other Lies Between Saint His Difference

It's funny how we 'do' Christmas. Christmas is not something that we do, it is something that was done. It celebrates the long awaited arrival of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. We had nothing to do with it, but what we can do is praise God for the coming of the Lord, who washed away the sins of the world by dying on the cross. Monica Johnson

Funny Christmas God World Christ Long Nothing Cross Something Had Messiah How Lord Praise Coming Arrival Sins Done Dying Who Washed Away Jesus Jesus Christ

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. Norman Douglas

You People Think Solemn Oath Take Never Never Take Mean

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