Here's a posy of flowers, and a basket too, With Birthday greetings all for you.
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the best way to get something done is to begin.
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I self destruct every relationship so that i don't get hurt... but in truth i just hurt myself worse in the long run..
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Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.
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A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. What do you mean? responded her mother. Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another.
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The time I am most powerful and in control of my life is when I drive my car. Whatever lonely feelings I have from the lack of communication with my husband disappear in no time flat. When the windows and the top are open with my favorite jazz station on the radio playing, nothing and nobody can touch me. Then I go home to the same relentless battle. Life can be a pisser
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Once while St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden, he was asked, What would you do it you were suddenly to learn that you were to die at sunset today? He replied, I would finish hoeing my garden.
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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
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Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.
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I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to somebody's need made me blind; But I never have yet Felt a tinge of regret for being a little to kind
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All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.
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After listening to a lecture on evolution by a science professor, a student wrote a poem and titled it ''The Amazing Professor.'' The poem read: Once I was a tadpole when I began to begin. Then I was a frog with my tail tucked in. Next I was a monkey on a coconut tree. Now I am a doctor with a Ph.D.
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In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion -- or a new form of Christianity -- based on faith in financial miracles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.
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It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.
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An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.
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It takes a little courage, and a little self -- control. And some grim determination, If you want to reach the goal. It takes a deal of striving, and a firm and stern-set chin. No matter what the battle, If you really want to win. There's no easy path to glory, There's no road to fame. Life, however we may view it, Is no simple parlor game; But it's prizes call for fighting, For endurance and for grit; For a rugged disposition and don't know when to quit.
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The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.
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As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.
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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
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On this mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: ''I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.'' To the executioner: ''Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thy office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thy honesty.''
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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.
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The test of any man's character is how he takes praise.
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It's not a slam at you when people are rude -- it's a slam at the people they've met before.
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I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10, 000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.
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It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.
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Never say goodbye, say farewell.
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The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.
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Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.
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The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.
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A group touring Westminster Abbey in London heard the guide list the famous people buried within its walls. During a momentary silence a little old lady's voice blurted out loud and clear, Anybody been saved here lately?
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