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It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ~William E. Gladstone, 1866



Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~Leonardo DaVinci



You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time. ~Pat Schroeder



What a type of happy family is the family of the sun! with what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another! ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season. ~Author Unknown



You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ~Walt Whitman



The deed is everything, the glory naught. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library? ~Lily Tomlin



Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep. ~H.M. Tomlinson



Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world. ~Jacques Barzun



Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates. ~Fernando Pessoa



Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb, sometimes attributed to William C. Hazlitt



Curmudgeon: anyone who hates hypocrisy and pretense and has the temerity to say so; anyone with the habit of pointing out unpleasant facts in an engaging and humorous manner (source: Portable Curmudgeon Redux, Jon Winokur).



Music's the medicine of the mind. ~John A. Logan



It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. ~Meryl Streep



He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold. ~Baltasar Gracian



I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. ~Bertrand Russell



A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. ~Thomas Jefferson