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    I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. -Paul the ApostleNo human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. -Graham GreeneHatred and war come largely of fixed ideas or dogmatic faith. -Bertrand Russell Only the wounded are able to bring good healing. -Wayne AustinSickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state. -Alexander PopeSickness is felt, but health not at all. -Thomas FullerThe awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us thefirst generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.-Jimmy CarterThere are no riches above a sound body, and no joy above the joy of the heart.-UnknownOvereating shortens lifespan and increases incidence of disease. -Roy WalfordPain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health. -Martin TupperAnd Thou hast taught me concerning eating and drinking, that I should set myself

    to take food as medicine. -Saint AugustineTake care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through theseeyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded. -Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMake your foods your medicines and your medicines your foods. -HippocratesThe first wealth is health. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.- Mark TwainListening to your heart and going with it is a winning principle. -Joe PaternoThe heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. -Blaise PascalA good heart is better than all the heads in the world. -Edward Bulwer-LyttonThe great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. -MenciusThe unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided;but never hit softly. -Theodore RooseveltEverybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. -Joe LouisGet a revelation of heaven. Heaven is more real than earth. Heaven is a full society. . . It's a mirrored image to this earth, without the pain. It's got houses, trees, animals, nations, cities. -Pastor Walter HallamThe child is father to the man. -William Wordsworth

    History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looksconfusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable. -John W. GardnerHistory is a vast early warning system. -Norman CousinsThe dogmas of the quite past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasionis piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is

    new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, then weshall save our country. Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this c

    ongress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest

    generation." -Abraham LincolnActs themselves alone are history . . . Tell me the acts, O historian, and leave

    me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish!

    All that is not action is not worth reading. -William BlakeHistory is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -NapoleonMen make history, otherwise there would be no history. History did not make theman. -Harry S. TrumanReading history to me was far more than a romantic adventure. It was solid instruction and wise teaching which I somehow felt that I wanted and needed. -HarryS. TrumanStudy men, not historians. -Harry S. TrumanThe lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world. -Robert Pe

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    nn WarrenThe more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. -MoliereThe silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails. -William ShakespeareI hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. -George WashingtonHonesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. -Thomas JeffersonBeing entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. -Sigmund FreudThe easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position. -LeoBuscagliaThe most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. -ShaftesburyHope is when you through an anchor into the future and then tug on the rope to pull you through. The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope. -WilliamShakespeareIt is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. -Eric HofferHope--that star of life's tremulous ocean. -Paul Moon James, The BeaconHope, the patent medicineFor disease, disaster, sin. -Wallace RiceHope is the poor man's bread. -George HerbertTo dream is to be filled with hope. I know this because I see the faces of hope

    daily. -Chauncey VeatchHope that is seen is not hope. -The Bible, Romans 8:24.When I am writing or speaking, I am trying to plant hope, and when I am gardening, I am planting food, and both are absolutely necessary for survival. -Og MandinoWhatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility. -Lyndon B. JohnsonWe must not hope to be mowers, and to gather the ripe gold ears, unless we havefirst been sowers and watered the furrows with tears. It is not just as we takeit, this mystical world of ours, life's field will yield as we make it a harvest

    of thorns or of flowers. -Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBe of good cheer. Do not think of to-day's failures, but of success that my come

    to-morrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if yo

    u persevere; and you will have a joy in overcoming obstacles--a delight in climbing rugged paths which you would perhaps never know if you did not sometimes slip backward, if the road were always smooth and pleasant. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. -Helen Keller