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Alexander Pope "To err is human, to forgive divine"
A tender quote that is recited by many, especially when faced with a situation in which they are seeking forgiveness for an error.
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Benjamin Franklin "Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
Probably the most quoted quote from parents to children when they want to infuse the idea that they should go to bed at a decent time in order to awake and get the day started early and in a successful direction.
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Benjamin Franklin "Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day"
Many people recall this in their head when they want to motivate themselves into doing a task that they really don't want to do.
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Francis Bacon "Knowledge is power"
This quote has been used around the world. People have made posters out of it and they have been posted on school walls everywhere.
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Abraham Lincoln "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
One of the most recited quotes from Lincoln. I know that I have heard this quote in various settings, including from my Mom and in school.
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Winston Churchill "Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."
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William Wordsworth "The good die first."
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John Greenleaf Whittier "For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'"
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"I have known many, Liked not a few, Loved only one. I toast to you"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson "Hitch your wagon to a star"
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"There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends."
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Jim Rohn "How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness."
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William Wordsworth "The child is father of the man."
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Benjamin Franklin "God helps them that help themselves."
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Alexander Pope "A little learning is a dangerous thing."
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Benjamin Franklin "He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing."
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Alexander Pope "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
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Francis Bacon "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
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Benjamin Franklin "There never was a good war or a bad peace."
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Rudyard Kipling "Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat."
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