A Careless Song |
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Horace Walpole
A careless song, with a little nonsense in it
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A Dog is the Only Thing on Earth |
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Josh Billings
A dog is the only thing on Earth
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A Dog's Purpose |
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Unknown
From a 6 year old wondering aloud
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A Friend is One Who Knows Us |
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Unknown
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
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A Good Walk Spoiled. |
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Mark Twain
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
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A Great Book |
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William Styron
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. - William Styron
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A Mothers Love |
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Bovee
A mothers love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age...
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A Smile is the Whisper of a Laugh. |
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Unknown
A smile is the whisper of a laugh.
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A Teacher Affects Eternity |
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Henry Adams
A teacher affects eternity
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A Writer |
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Thomas Mann
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Adapt or Perish |
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H. G. Wells
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.
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After Thirty |
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Unknown
After 30, a body has a mind of its own.
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Ah, When To The Heart Of Man |
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Robert Frost
Ah, when to the heart of man
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All Music is Folk Music |
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Louis Armstrong
Man, all music is folk music. You ain't never heard no horse sing a song, have you?
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All That I Am |
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Lincoln
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.
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All You Can |
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J. Wesley
Make all you can, Save all you can, Give all you can.
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Alliance |
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Unknown
Amid all the forms of life that surround us
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Amazing Grace |
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John Newton
Amazing Grace how sweet the sound
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America the Beautiful |
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Katherine Lee Bates
O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain,
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American Crisis, No. 1 |
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Thomas Paine
These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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An Arrangement |
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Frank Zappa
Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.
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An Educated Man |
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C.V. Wedgwood
An educated man should know everything about one thing
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An Ounce Of Mother |
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Spanish proverb
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Anger |
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Benjamin Franklin
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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Annoyance |
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Mark Twain
Fewer things are harder to put up with
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As If You Were Used to It |
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Unknown
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
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At The Touch Of Love |
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Plato
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
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Auguries of Innocence |
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William Blake
To see the world in a grain of sand
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Battle Hymn of the Republic |
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Julia Ward Howe
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
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Be Like the Bird |
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Victor Hugo
Be like the bird who halting in her flight
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Beautiful Women |
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unknown
age 3 She looks at herself and sees a Queen. age 8 She looks at herself and sees Cinderella.
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Beauty Sleep |
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Unknown
Now I lay me down to sleep
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Beyond My Control |
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Unknown
Meeting you was Fate, becoming your friend was a Choice
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Birthdays Are Good For You |
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Unknown
Birthdays are good for you; the more you have, the longer you live.
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Bless This House |
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Unknown
Bless This House Oh Lord, We Pray
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Boldness |
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Johann von Goethe
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
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Breathe, Believe, Receive. |
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Unknown
Breathe, Believe, Receive.
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Buy American Made! |
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Unknown
Read those product labels. Think before you give away your job
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Children Are Like Kites |
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Unknown
Children are like kites. You work so hard trying your best to get them off the ground.
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Climb the Mountains |
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John Muir
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings
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Connected |
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James Baldwin
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented
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Desiderata |
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Max Ehrmann
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence
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Dinner for Four |
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Orson Welles
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four.
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Discipline Then and Now |
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Anna Quindlen
Fifty years ago teachers said
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Do All the Good You Can |
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John Wesley
Do all the good you can
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night |
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Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night
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Do Not Look Where You Fell |
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African proverb
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
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Do unto Others |
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Various
Do unto Others As you would have Them Do unto You.
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Do What You Can |
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Theodore Roosevelt
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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Dogs Are Not Our Whole Life |
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Roger Caras
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole
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Dogs vs. Men |
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Mark Twain
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous
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Don't Even Think About It |
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Unknown
Don't even Think about it.
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Don't Have a Cow, Man! |
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Unknown
Don't Have a Cow, Man!
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Don't Treat Me Any Differently |
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Unknown
Don't treat me any differently than you would the queen.
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Earth Laughs in Flowers |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earth Laughs in Flowers
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Eat More Cake |
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Unknown
Birthdays are just nature's way of telling us to eat more cake, silly.
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Education |
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William Butler Yeats
Education is not the filling of a pail
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Every day Be Thankful |
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unknown
Every Day Be Thankful
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Everything You Do |
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Harriet Doerr
During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off in some way.
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Ewes Not Fat |
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Unknown
Ewes not fat, ewes fluffy.
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Fear |
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Seneca
To be feared is to fear; no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind himself.
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Feed a Man |
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Chinese proverb
Give a man a fish and you may feed him for a day
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Fiction |
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Tom Clancy
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
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First Epistle to the Corinthians, Chapter 13 |
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Paul
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels
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God Bless America |
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Irving Berlin
While the storm clouds gather far across the sea, Let us swear allegiance to a land that’s free,
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Good Breeding |
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Mark Twain
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves
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Good Deeds Ring Clear Through Heaven Like A Bell. |
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Richter
Good Deeds ring clear through Heaven like a bell.
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Good Teaching |
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Gail Godwin
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater
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Gradually Approach Eighteen |
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Mark Twain
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty
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Great Things |
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Vincent Van Gogh
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
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Happily Ever After |
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Unknown
And they lived happily ever after
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Happiness Keeps You Sweet |
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Unknown
Happiness keeps you Sweet, Trials keep you Strong
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He Has Achieved Success |
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Betty Anderson Stanley
He has achieved success who has lived well
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He Who Learns Must Suffer |
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Aeschylus
He who learns must sufferHe who learns must suffer
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Heaven |
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James Thurber
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven... and very few people
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Heaven Is Under Our Feet |
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Henry David Thoreau
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads
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Home Fires |
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Carl Sandburg
In a Yiddish eating place on Rivington Street
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Home Sweet Home |
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Unknown
Home Sweet Home
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How Far You Go |
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George Washington Carver
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young
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How Many Women |
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Unknown
How many women with MENOPAUSE does it take to change a light bulb?
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How to Preserve a Husband |
|
unknown
1. Be careful in your selection.
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Hustle |
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Abraham Lincoln
Things may come to those who wait . . . but only the things left by those who hustle.
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i carry your heart with me |
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E. E. Cummings
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)
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I Have Others |
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Groucho Marx
Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.
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I Like Living |
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Agatha Christie
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all
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I Say No to Drugs |
|
u
I say no to drugs -but they don't listen.
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I Swear |
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Unknown
I Swear to Drunk, I'm Not God!
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If |
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Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs
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If a Dog was the Teacher |
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Unknown
If a dog was the teacher
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If I Could Be Any Part of You |
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Unknown
If I could be any part of you, I'd be your tears.
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If My World Were a Village |
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Donella H. Meadows
If my world were a village of 100 people
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Imagination |
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Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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Impossibilities |
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Jean de la Fontaine
Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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In the Middle of an Ordinary Life |
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Unknown
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life
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Infinite Meadows |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of Heaven
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Intelligent Coexistence Required |
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Unknown
No matter where you stand No matter your perspective Intelligent Coexistence Required
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Invictus |
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William Ernest Henley
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole
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Involve Me |
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Chinese proverb
Tell me and I may forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I will understand.
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It Cannot Be Done |
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Chinese proverb
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
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It Is Attached |
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John Muir
When one tugs at a single thing in nature
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It Might Have Been |
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John Greenleaf Whittier
For all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: It might have been.
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It's a Free Country |
|
Unknown
It's a free country.
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It's Time for Wine |
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Unknown
It's time for wine.
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Keep It Simple |
|
Unknown
Keep It Simple.
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Kitchen Prayer |
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Klara Munkres
Lord of all pots and pans and things
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Land of the Free |
|
Francis Scott Key
Land of the Free, Home of the Brave
|
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Laughter is Wine for the Soul |
|
Sean O’Casey
Laughter is Wine for the Soul
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Learn to Love |
|
Unknown
School yourself to savor most joys that have but little cost;
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Learning |
|
T.H. Huxley
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
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Leave It As It Is |
|
Theodore Roosevelt
Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it.
|
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Let Freedom Ring |
|
Samuel Francis Smith
Let Freedom Ring
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Let Unconquerable Gladness Dwell |
|
unknown
Let unconquerable gladness dwell
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Life is Good. |
|
Unknown
Life is good.
|
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Life Isn't About Waiting |
|
Unknown
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass
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Life Should Not Be a Journey to the Grave |
|
Unknown
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave
|
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Light a Candle |
|
Unknown
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
|
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Live Simply |
|
unknown
Live Simply, Love Generously, Care Deeply, Speak Kindly
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Love Can Never Grow Old |
|
Leo Buscaglia
Love can never grow old
|
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Love is a Fire |
|
Unknown
Love is a fire that can warm your heart or burn down your house.
|
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Love You Always |
|
Unknown
Love You Always
|
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Love Your Mother |
|
Unknown
Love Your Mother
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Man and Cat |
|
Mark Twain
If man could be crossed with the cat
|
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Man Is Probably The Only Animal |
|
George Ross Wells
Man is probably the only animal
|
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May today there be peace within |
|
Saint Therese
May today there be peace within
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Money |
|
Swift
A wise man should have money in his head, not in his heart.
|
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Mothers |
|
Theodore Edward Hook (1788–1841)
It is generally admitted, and very frequently proved, that virtue and genius
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Music, the Greatest Good |
|
Joseph Addison
Music, the greatest good that mortals know
|
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My Country 'Tis of Thee |
|
Samuel Francis Smith
My country, 'tis of thee
|
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My Dog's My Boss |
|
Robert William Service
Each day when it's anighing three Old Dick looks at the clock
|
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My Father |
|
Mark Twain (attributed)
When I was a boy of 14
|
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Never Do It For Free |
|
Unknown
If you're good at something never do it for free.
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No Pressure, No Diamonds. |
|
Mary Case
No pressure, no diamonds.
|
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Not to Believe Everything |
|
Anonymous
If you promise not to believe everything your child says
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One Day At A Time |
|
u
One Day At A Time
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One Person |
|
Unknown
Remember... To the World, you may be one person
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Our Remedies |
|
Shakespeare
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
|
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Pets Night Before Christmas |
|
Unknown
‘Twas the night before Christmas
|
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Prayer of St. Francis |
|
St. Francis of Assisi (attributed)
Lord, make me a channel of thy peace, that where there is hatred, I may bring love
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Psalm 23 |
|
David
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
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Psalm 37 |
|
David
Fret not thyself because of evildoers
|
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Random Acts of Kindness |
|
Anne Herbert (attributed)
Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty
|
|
Random Acts of Kindness How-To List |
|
Unknown
1. Write a letter to someone. Soldiers fighting, kids in detention centers or the elderly in nursing homes.
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Remain |
|
Unknown
reduce, reuse, recycle, remain
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Regret |
|
Sydney J. Harris
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
|
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Relativity |
|
Albert Einstein
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute.
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Relief |
|
Mark Twain
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances
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Rich |
|
Erich Fromm
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
|
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Roses And Mud. |
|
Unknown
Like rain, sorrow makes roses and mud.
|
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Serenity Prayer |
|
Reinhold Niebuhr
God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change
|
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Seven Sins |
|
Mahatma Gandhi
There are 7 sins in the world
|
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She Walks in Beauty |
|
George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron
She walks in beauty, like the night
|
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She Walks in Beauty |
|
Lord Byron
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies
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Si, Se Puede! |
|
Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta
Si, Se Puede!
|
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Singularity |
|
Winston Churchill
No two on earth in all things can agree.
|
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So Smart |
|
Albert Einstein
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
|
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Sonnet 18 |
|
William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
|
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Sonnet 43 |
|
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
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Style |
|
Lucy Madeira
Function in disaster. Finish in style.
|
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Sunshine |
|
Sir James M. Barrie
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
|
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Sweet Land of Liberty |
|
Samuel Francis Smith
Sweet Land of Liberty
|
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Take Me Out To The Ball Game |
|
Jack Norworth
Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd
|
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Teachers Are the Guardians of Civilization |
|
Bertrand Russel
Teachers are the guardians of civilization.
|
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Teaching and Learning |
|
Latin proverb
By learning you will teach
|
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Television |
|
Groucho Marx
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
|
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The 10 Commandments of Pet Ownership |
|
Jaime Smith
The 10 Commandments of Pet Ownership
|
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The Answer |
|
Rudyard Kipling
A Rose, in tatters on the garden path, Cried out to God
|
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The Art of Teaching |
|
Mark VanDoren
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery
|
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The Biggest Human Temptation |
|
Thomas Merton
The Biggest Human Temptation
|
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The Friendship Miracle |
|
unknown
There is a Miracle called Friendship
|
|
The Future |
|
Franklin D. Roosevelt
We cannot always build the future for our youth
|
|
The Gettysburg Address |
|
Abraham Lincoln
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation
|
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The Guest House |
|
Jelaluddin Rumi (translation by Coleman Barks)
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival.
|
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The Hidden Spirit of the Wilderness |
|
Theodore Roosevelt
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness
|
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The Lord's Prayer |
|
Jesus
Our Father which art in Heaven
|
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The Love Of Learning |
|
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books.
|
|
The Loving Cup |
|
Ogden Nash
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup
|
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The Most Birthdays |
|
Unknown
Statistics show that the people who have the most birthdays live the longest
|
|
The New Colossus |
|
Emma Lazarus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
|
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The Reason a Dog Has So Many Friends |
|
Unknown
The reason a dog has so many friends
|
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The Road Not Taken |
|
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both
|
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The Sure Possession |
|
Unknown
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone, who have the courage to defend it.
|
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The Ten Commandments |
|
God
I am the Lord thy God; Though shalt not have strange Gods before Me.
|
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The Tracks We Leave |
|
Native American saying
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
|
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The Wind |
|
William Arthur Ward
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
|
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There Is A Blessing |
|
Unknown
The happiest, sweetest, tenderest homes are not those where there has been no sorrow,
|
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There is No Psychiatrist in the World |
|
Ben Williams
There is no psychiatrist in the world
|
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There's No Place Like Home |
|
Unknown
There's No Place Like Home
|
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Thinking |
|
Albert Einstein
The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
|
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This Land Is Your Land |
|
Woodie Guthrie
This land is your land, This land is my land, From California To the New York island
|
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To Ease Another's Heartache |
|
Abraham Lincoln (attributed)
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
|
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To Give is To Gain |
|
Unknown
To give is to gain
|
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To See the World |
|
William Blake
To see the world in a grain of sand
|
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To Touch Lives |
|
Anonymous
To teach is to touch lives forever.
|
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Totally Unacceptable |
|
Unknown
That is Totally Unacceptable.
|
|
Troubles of Tomorrow |
|
Ralph W. Sockman
Let us not bankrupt our today by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday
|
|
Turn Your Face to the Sun |
|
Unknown
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
|
|
Two Things Stand Like Stone |
|
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Life is mostly froth and bubble
|
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Watch Your Thoughts |
|
Frank Outlaw
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
|
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We Are The Children Of Our Own Deeds |
|
Dykes
It is our own past which has made us what we are. We are the children of our own deeds.
|
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We Borrow It |
|
Native American saying
We do not inherit the land from our ancestors
|
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We Make a Life |
|
Unknown
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
|
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Welcome Friend |
|
Unknown
Welcome Friend
|
|
Welcome to Our Home |
|
Unknown
Welcome to Our Home
|
|
What Would Jesus Do? |
|
Unknown
What Would Jesus Do?
|
|
What Would Oprah Do? |
|
Unknown
What would Oprah do?
|
|
When Old Men Plant Trees |
|
Greek proverb
A society grows great when old men plant trees
|
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Wisdom |
|
Abba Eban
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
|
|
Wisdom |
|
Solomon
Blessed is the man who finds wisdom
|
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Work Like You Don't Need The Money |
|
unknown
Work Like You Don't Need The Money
|
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Yes, We Can! |
|
Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta
Yes, we can!
|
|
You Are Loved |
|
Unknown
You are sincerely and deeply loved for who you are.
|
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You Can't Just Let Nature Run Wild! |
|
Unknown
You can't just let nature run wild!
|
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You Got A Prblum Wid Dat? |
|
Unknown
you got a prblum wid dat?
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Your Guest |
|
Unknown
Always assume your guest is tired, cold and hungry and act accordingly.
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