Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I dont believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

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James Russell Lowell

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

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R. Buckminster Fuller, New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966

Either war is obsolete or men are.

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Bob Talbert

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Look well into thyself there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.

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Mother Theresa

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.

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Thomas Jefferson

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

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Juvenal

Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

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Brigham Young

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.

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Woodrow Wilson

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

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E. B. White

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

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William Blake

Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's dispite.

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