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Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Booker T. WashingtonUp from Slavery: An Autobiography

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

Booker T. WashingtonUp from Slavery: An Autobiography

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. WashingtonUp from Slavery: An Autobiography

Put away anger from the heart and do not show resentment; do not be angered when others act differently.

Prince ShotokuSeventeen-Article Constitution (Source is unconfirmed).

Harmony is to be valued and quarrels avoided.

Prince ShotokuSeventeen-Article Constitution (Source is unconfirmed).

I am not necessarily a saint, nor is another necessarily a fool; we are both merely ordinary people.

Prince ShotokuSeventeen-Article Constitution (Source is unconfirmed).

Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it. Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist.

Emily CarrHundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

Emily CarrHundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

Vincent van GoghLetters to Theo

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van GoghLetters to Theo

Down deep we all hug something. The great forest hugs its silence. The sea and the air hug the spilled cries of sea-birds. The forest hugs only silence; its birds and even its beasts are mute.

Emily CarrKlee Wyck

Sunny ways, my friends, sunny ways. This is what positive politics can do.

Wilfrid LaurierThe Sunny Way Speech (1895)

One people, one breath, one mind, one heart.

Kamehameha IVision for unified Hawaii

Where you tend a rose, a thistle cannot grow.

Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Secret Garden (1911)

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done—then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Secret Garden (1911)

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Secret Garden (1911)

Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet.

L. M. MontgomeryAnne of Green Gables (1908)

I will drink life to the lees.

Alfred TennysonUlysses (1833)

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred TennysonIn Memoriam A.H.H. (1850)

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alfred TennysonUlysses (1833)

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