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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein

Pity the meek for they shall inherit the earth.

- Don Marquis | Environment Quotes

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

- Don Marquis | Goals and Ambition Quotes

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

- Don Marquis | Happiness Quotes

Happiness comes fleetingly now and then, To those who have learned to do without it And to them only.

- Don Marquis | Happiness Quotes

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

- Don Marquis | Optimism and Pessimism Quotes

The successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

- Don Marquis | Success Quotes

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

- Don Marquis | Regrets Quotes

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

- Don Marquis | Unhappiness Quotes

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

- Don Marquis | Happiness Quotes

Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it, and to them only.

- Don Marquis | Happiness Quotes

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred With maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

- Don Marquis | Forgiveness Quotes

There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him, interested ourself in his welfare. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These moments are the moments worth living.

- Don Marquis | Friendship Quotes

Friends, I beg you do not shirk your daily task of indolence.

- Don Marquis | One Day Quotes

It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

- Don Marquis | Boring Days Quotes

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

- Don Marquis | Instincts Quotes

The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.

- Don Marquis | Goals Quotes

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

- Don Marquis | Poetry Quotes