Quote by John Dryden
Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or k

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. – John Dryden

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Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what happens, let us bear, nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. – John Dryden

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Endurance
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Dont worry if your job is small and your rewards few. Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you. – Source Unknown

If I had my career over again? Maybe Id say to myself, speed it up a little. – Jimmy Stewart

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant. – Elvis Costello

To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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I dont like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. – Anne Stevenson

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Todays Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish. – Thurgood Marshall

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. – Saint Augustine

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A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort. – Meriwether Lewis

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