Saturday, June 6, 2009

Darkly Comical Quotes

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. – Thoreau

Only one who sees the invisible can do the impossible. – Frank L. Gaines

Purpose is what gives life meaning. – C.H. Parkhurst, D.D.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. – Mark Twain

If you never break a promise, if you always pay the money you owe exactly on the day it is due, nobody will know but that you are worth a billion. And you will be just as good a risk as a man worth a billion, for all that he could do would be to pay promptly on the due date. – Hamilton Fish

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then shalt thou know what is in thee. – Goethe

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. – William Lyon Phelps

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