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Bright and Brief Quotes

Start by doing what's
necessary, then what's
possible and suddenly
you are doing the impossible.

St. Francis of Assisi
A woman's guess is more
accurate than a man's certainty.

Rudyard Kipling
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear, but around
in awareness.

James Thurber
Don't walk in front of me, I may 
        not follow
Don't walk behind me, I may not
        lead
Just walk beside me and be my 
        friend.
                        
Albert Camus
To make your children capable
of honesty is the beginning of
education.

John Ruskin
True eloquence consists in
saying all that is necessary, and
nothing but what is necessary.

Duc de la Rochefoucauld
You can't escape the responsi-
bility of tomorrow by evading it
today.

Abraham Lincoln
He who sees a need and waits 
to be asked for help is as unkind 
as if he had refused it.

Dante
Courage is the ladder on
which all the other virtues
mount.

Clare Booth Luce
Nothing is so strong as
gentleness, nothing so gentle
as real strength.

St. Francis de Sales

The hopeful man sees success
where others see failure, sunshine
where others see shadow and storm.

O.S. Marden
No one can write decently who
is distrustful of the reader's
intelligence or whose attitude is
patronizing.

E.B. White
We, the willing, led by the
unknowing, are doing the impossible
for the ungrateful.  We have done so
much with so little, we can now do
anything with nothing.

The Heart Lab
Chad Thunell
Common Sense is genius dressed in 
its working clothes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way to gain a good reputation
is to endeavor to be what you desire to
appear.

Socrates
Happiness is beneficial for the
body, but it is grief that develops the
powers of the mind.

Marcel Proust
I love cats because I love my home,
and little by little they become its
invisible soul.

Jean Cocteau
My little dog:
A Heartbeat
at my feet.

Edith Wharton
One does not discover new lands
without consenting to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide       
The good teacher makes the poor
students good and the good students
superior.

Marva Collins

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