1- A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

2- A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

3- A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

4- Absence…

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!
- Alice James

All would live long, but…

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered,
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives,
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies,
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow,
Do…

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope
- Alexandre Dumas Père

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience.
- unknown

The…

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