Watson, Lillian Eichler, 1902-
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A TREASURY OF INSPIRATION
SELECTED FROM THE WISDOM OF THE AGES—THE FOUNDATIONSFROM THE PAST FOR HAPPIER, MORE CONFIDENT LIVING TODAY
AND HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
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Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard hequeathed to it hyantiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented hy fresh acquisitions,to future ages. Thomas Macauhy
Nurture your mind with great thoughts. Benjamin Disraeli
We forfeit the chief source of dignity and sweetness in hfe ... ifwe do not seek converse with the greater minds that have left theirvestiges on the world. James Martineau
There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal. Cicero
Words are things, and a small drop of ink,Falling like dew upon a thought, producesThat which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Lord Byron
No man is wise enough by himself. Plautus
Most of us have collections of sayings we live by. . . . Wheneverwords fly up at me from the printed page as I read, I intercept theminstantly, knowing they are for me. I turn them over carefully in mymind and cling to them hard. David Grayson
Who is a wise mani* He who learns of all men. Talmud
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It is not how much you know about life but how you live your lifethat counts. Those who can avoid mistakes by observing the mistakesof others are most apt to keep free from sorrow. In a world full ofuncertainties, the record of what has gone before—human experience—is as sure and reliable as anything of which we know.
Ray Lyman Wilbur
The men who have gone before us have taught us how to live andhow to die. We are the heirs of the ages. Sidney Dark
"We are the heirs of the ages,"
The manner in which one single ray of hght, one single precious hint,will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives it,is among the most wonderful and heavenly of intellectual phenomena.
Arnold Bennett
The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture. Ovid
The images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books. . . . Theygenerate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provokingand causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.
Francis Bacon
A word spoken in due season, how good it is. Proverbs 15:23
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Time is of no account with great thoughts. They are as fresh today aswhen they first passed through their authors' minds, ages ago.
Samuel Smiles
Who can mistake great thoughts?They seize upon the mind; arrest and search,And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind;Rush over it like a river over reeds.
Phili'p James Bailey^ VI
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone atlife in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel all their strength sup-porting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in whichI am to go. Bonaro W. Overstreet