Positive Quote Of The Day February 2011

[pjbs35a]

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional
glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful
scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.-- Harold B. Melchart

[Jeff]

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[ibrowse17]

Thanks:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small
by his own will.-- J.C.F. von Schiller

[Jeff]

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[ibrowse17]

Nice, thanks:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely
miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite
certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
-- Agatha Christie

[Jeff]

Very true!:thumbsup:

[ibrowse17]

Thanks:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

An Old Farmer's Advice

Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures,
costs nothing, and conveys much.
-- Erastus Wiman

[vizsla]

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[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

An Old Farmer's Advice

Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being
cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared.
It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness
that comes with having proved you can meet life.
-- Ann Landers, born 1918

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English Poet

[Jeff]

Great one!:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what
has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the
best you can you can't do any better.
-- Harry S. Truman

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

An Old Farmer's Advice

A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.

[Jeff]

Funny!:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Poet and Essayist

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well.
-- Danish proverb

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

An Old Farmer's Advice

Words that soak into your ears are whispered…...not yelled.

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and
richness to life that nothing else can bring.
-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Dramatist and Poet

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the
same thing.
-- Janet Erskine Stuart

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected
of him.
-- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American Novelist

[Jeff]

Excellent!:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

Not the owner of many possessions will you be right to call happy: he
more rightly deserves the name of happy who knows how to use
God's gifts wisely and to put up with rough poverty, and who fears
dishonor more than death.
-- Horace (65-8 BC) Roman Poet

[pjbs35a]

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
-- Henry Ford (1863-1947) American Industrialist

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless,
unremembered acts of kindness and love.
-- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English poet

[Jeff]

Great thought!:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

Sorry, been away for a few days.



Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals. Constant employment
and well-paid labor produce general prosperity, content, and
cheerfulness.
-- Daniel Webster

[pjbs35a]

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he
ought to do in circumstances confronting him.
-- St. Thomas Aquinas

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
-- Bertolt Brecht, 1933

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong;
honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like
dead leaves when their time comes.

-- John Ruskin (1819-1900) English Art Critic

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Every man has an obscure respect for courage in others, especially if
it is moral courage, the rarest and most difficult sort of bravery...
It makes the very brute understand that this man is more than a man.
-- Passage from Life of Christ

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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