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Thought-of-the-Day
May 2001 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
05/01/01"The first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right." - Cato
05/02/01"The shortest answer is doing." - Proverb
05/04/01"To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon." - Chinese Proverb
05/05/01"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" - Abraham Lincoln
05/06/01"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." - Kahlil Gibran
05/07/01"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own." - Benjamin Disraeli
05/08/01"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself." - George Bernard Shaw
05/09/01"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science." - Albert Einstein
05/10/01"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." - Confucius
05/11/01"I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write." - Voltaire
05/12/01"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer
05/13/01"We are twice armed if we fight with faith." - Plato
05/14/01"In depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." - Albert Camus
05/15/01"The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid." - Dale Carnegie
05/16/01"Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say 'Why not?' " - George Bernard Shaw
05/17/01"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." - Kahlil Gibran
05/18/01"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen." - Ernest Hemingway
05/19/01"Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it." - Homer
05/20/01"Whoever degrades another degrades me, and whatever is done or said returns at last to me." - Walt Whitman
05/21/01"Though we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; one equal temper of heroic hearts made weak by time and fate but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield." - Alfred Tennyson
05/22/01"The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights." - Erwin Griswold
05/23/01"The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity." - Emma Goldman
05/24/01"For there is nothing either good or bad, thinking makes it so."
05/25/01"No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him." - W.A. Nance
05/26/01"The mind is everything. What you think you become." - Buddha
05/27/01"A friend is a gift you give yourself." - Robert Louis Stevenson
05/28/01"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." - Albert Einstein
05/29/01"I can scarcely wait for tomorrow as a new life begins for me, as it does each. As it does each day." - Stanley Kunitz
05/30/01"Common sense is not so common." - Voltaire
05/31/01"It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace." - Albert Schweitzer


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