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My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad. -Olive Schreiner, author (1855-1920)

I was wondering if anyone would like to start a thread for our favorite quotations. Ohh wait I just did ...
"There's so much happiness behind these tears."
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For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been." -John Greenleaf Whittier, poet (1807-1892)
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. -George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)
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People change and forget to tell each other. -Lillian Hellman, playwright (1905-1984)
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For it was then I knew we would never meet agian.

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A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your successes. -Cullen Hightower, salesman and writer (1923- )
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. -Anais Nin, writer (1903-1977)

A taste for abnormal pleasures killes the taste for normal ones. -Anais Nin
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When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always. -Rita Rudner, comedienne (1955- )

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A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood. -Chinese Proverb
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Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -Miguel de Cervantes, writer (1547-1616)
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. -William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (1865-1939)
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please. -Edmund Spenser, poet (1552-1599)

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After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood. -Fred Thompson, US senator, lawyer, writer, and actor (1942- )
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The road to wisdom? Well it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again, but less and less and less. -Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)
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It is never the shallower for the calmnesse. The Sea is a deepe, there is as much water in the Sea, in a calme, as in a storme. -John Donne, poet (1573-1631)
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Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt. -Kin Hubbard, humorist (1868-1930)

This is all so very true... I give compliments when I see, hear, or do something I like. Others throw them out to try to get into bed with someone or for personal gain. :roll:
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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. ---Elizabeth Bowen
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Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it. -Kin Hubbard

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Be yourself and do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. -Max Ehrmann, writer and lawyer (1872-1945)

I just have to keep this in mind... :cry:
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It (death) comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. -John Donne, poet (1573-1631)
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