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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
Henri Frederic Amiel
It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists - in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.
Henri Frederic Amiel