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  • A bad workman quarrels with his tools.— Proverb
  • A good friend is another himself. —Bacon
  • A little learning is a dangerous thing.— Alexander Pope
  • A single step for man— a giant leap for mankind.— Neil Armstrong
  • A thing of beauty is a joy forever. — Keats
  • A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds — Bacon
  • Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. -- Cowper
  • Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.—Franklin
  • All the world's stage and all the men and women merely players.— Shakespeare.
  • Beauty is truth, truth is beauty. — Keats
  • Better reign in hell than serve in heaven. — Milton
  • Brevity is the soul of wit. — Shakespeare
  • Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. — Alexander Pope
  • Cowards die many times before their death. — Shakespeare
  • Death is the golden key that opens the places of eternity.    — John Milton
  • Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. — Franklin
  • Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others. — Franklin
  • Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds —   Socrates
  • Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. —  Alexander Pope
  • Frailty, thy name is woman. — Shakespeare
  • God is in the heaven all is right with the world.— Browning
  • God is on the side of big battailions.— Bernard Shaw
  • God made the country and man made the town. — Cowper
  • Good nature and good sense must ever join, To err is human, to forgive divine.— Alexander Pope
  • Government of the people, by the people, for the people.    — Abraham Lincoln
  • He prayeth best who loveth best. — Coleridge
  • Help thyself, and God will help thee.— Herbert
  • I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I waked and found that life was duty.— S. Hooper
  • If winter comes, can spring be far behind? — Shelley
  • Knowledge is power.   - - Hobbes
  • Live and let live is a rule of common justice. — Lord Mansfield
  • Love looks not with eyes, but with the mind. — Shakespeare
  • Man's conscience is the oracle of God.— Lord Byron
  • Necessity is the mother of invention. —   Latin proverb
  • No man can be wise on an empty stomach. ---- George Eliot
  • Nothing is good or bad thinking makes it so.— Shakespeare
  • One should eat to live, not live to eat. —  Franklin
  • Our sweetest songs are those that tell us of saddest thoughts. — Shelley
  • Pain is the outcome of sin. — Gautam Buddha
  • Poets are  the  unacknowledged  legislators of the world.  — Shelley
  • Politics is the last refuge of scoundrels.— Johnson
  • Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.— Thomas Carlyle
  • Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.— Lord Acton
  • Prejudice is the reason of fools. — Voltaire
  • Reading maketh a fullman, conference a readyman writting an exact man.— Bacon
  • Self- preservation is the first law of Nature.— Samuel Butler
  • Some are born great, some achieve greatness, a some have greatness thrust upon them. ---- Shakespeare
  • Some books are to be tested, others to be swallow and some few to be chewed and digested.— Bacon
  • Speech is great, but silence is greater.— Thomas Carlyle
  • Success makes success, as money makes money — Chamfort
  • Superstition is a religion of feeble minded persons. ---- Edmund Barke
  • The child is the father of man.— Wordsworth
  • The paths of glory lead but to the grave.— Gray
  • They think too little who talk too much.— John Dryden
  • We first make our habits and then our habits ma— John Dryden