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Thought-of-the-Day
July 2013 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
07/01/13"We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for." - Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
07/02/13"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind." - William Butler Yeats
07/03/13"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart." - Socrates
07/04/13"Freedom is the last, best hope of earth." - Abraham Lincoln
07/05/13"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin
07/06/13"Beware the fury of a patient man." - John Dryden
07/07/13"Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness." - Kahlil Gibran
07/08/13"Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
07/09/13"If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him." - Francis Bacon
07/10/13"One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen." - Philip Wylie
07/11/13"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility." - James Thurber
07/12/13"It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final." - Roger Babson
07/13/13"Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it." - Phyllis Bottome
07/14/13"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C. S. Lewis
07/15/13"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant." - Charles de Gaulle
07/16/13"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do." - Thomas Jefferson
07/17/13"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." - Pericles
07/18/13"The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it." - Augustus Hare
07/19/13"The art of love is largely the art of persistence." - Albert Ellis
07/20/13"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it." - Rene Descartes
07/21/13"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell
07/22/13"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness." - William Arthur Ward
07/23/13"Joy is not in things; it is in us." - Richard Wagner
07/24/13"One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life." - E. M. Forster
07/25/13"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough." - William Blake
07/26/13"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
07/27/13"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there." - Josh Billings
07/28/13"The only journey is the one within." - Rainer Maria Rilke
07/29/13"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving." - Friedrich Nietzsche
07/30/13"Character is power." - Booker T. Washington
07/31/13"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." - Albert Camus


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