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short_quote[0]= "The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose."
short_quote[1]= "A place for everything, everything in its place."
short_quote[2]= "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
short_quote[3]= "He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of iron that none can pierce."
short_quote[4]= "Adversity is the first path to truth."
short_quote[5]= "He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho; that's all the divinity I understand."
short_quote[6]= "All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth."
short_quote[7]= "Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."
short_quote[8]= "Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn."
short_quote[9]= "How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!"
short_quote[10]= "Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."
short_quote[11]= "A good laugh is sunshine in a house."
short_quote[12]= "Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future. "
short_quote[13]= "A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arm He makes his failure certain by himself person to be convinced of it. "
short_quote[14]= "Sunset and evening star, and one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, but such a tide as moving seems asleep, too full for sound and foam, when that which drew from out the boundless deep turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness or farewell, when I embark. For though from out our bourne of Time and Place the flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar. "
short_quote[15]= "Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonized as in that hour left my lips; for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love."
short_quote[16]= "Worry, the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. "
short_quote[17]= "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "
short_quote[18]= "Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. "
short_quote[19]= "Not I--not anyone else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself."
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