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"It used to take courage--indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence--to leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home." Alvaro de Solva 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Life's two Great Questions: Why me? and What do I do now?" William L. DeAndrea 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right." Eugene V. Debs 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"More men have become great through practice than by nature." Democritus 2.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." Demosthenes 4.6429 average rating Rate this Quote
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues." Rene Descartes 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination." John Dewey 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy." The Dhammapada 4.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest." Charles Dickens 4.7778 average rating Rate this Quote
"'At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.'" Charles Dickens 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks." Charles Dickens 4.8571 average rating Rate this Quote
"He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing." Laertius Diogenes 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen." Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli 4.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences." Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli 4.7778 average rating Rate this Quote
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own." Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, For you will never go any higher that you think..." Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Nurture your minds with great thoughts, to believe in the heroic makes heroes." Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli Rate this Quote
"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge." Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli 4.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
"As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life." Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli 2.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment; And the best comrade is one that hath no desire." Tibetan Doctrine 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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