Quote The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Mark Twain
Quote Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. Abraham Lincoln
Quote The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people. Robert W. Service
Quote Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Quote Quote from “Goblin Market” For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands. Christina Rossetti
Quote Quote from “Letters To His Son W.B. Yeats And Others 1869-1922” Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. - John Butler Yeats
Quote Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. Ernest Hemingway
Quote If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. Henry David Thoreau