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"Hope is but the dream of those who wake."
— Matthew Prior

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."
— Vernon Howard

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
— George Eliot

"The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder."
— Frederick William Faber

"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
— Jean Paul

"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."
— Charlotte Whitton

"Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space."
— Orson Scott Card

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
— Saint Augustine

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself."
— Henry Ward Beecher

"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."
— James Baldwin

"There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle."
— Alexis de Tocqueville

"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness."
— Stewart Udall

"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."
— Lee Iacocca

"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life."
— Simone Weil

"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes."
— Dylan Thomas

"The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident."
— Francesco Guicciardini

"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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