Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.

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A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because …

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Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!

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In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

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The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

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You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

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I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

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Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

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