Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.

Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christ

Charles Dickens

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Lucretius

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Aristotle

A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Ernest Newman

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Maria Montessori

There was another silence, while Marjorie considered whether or not convincing her mother was worth the trouble. People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/bernice/bernice.html

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bernice Bob

Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lamp posts... for support rather than illumination.

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The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.

Og Mandino

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

George Eliot

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Anon.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Baltasar Gracian

Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.

Marco Rubio