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Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.-EMERSON.

Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.-COLERIDGE.

Intellectual brilliancy weighs as light as punk against 'the gold of gentleness and character.

-NEWELL D. HILLIS. Inventions may be defined as great minds detecting the strategic moment in nature.-NEWELL D. HILLIS. Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.-Bible.

"It doesn't cost anything to say 'Good morning,' even if it's raining."

It is a brief period of life that is granted us by nature, but the memory of a well-spent life never dies.-CICERO. It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.-COLTON.

It is as great to be a woman as to be a man.

-WALT WHITMAN.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.-THACKERAY. "It is better to fight for good than to rail at the ill." It is better to inspire the heart with a noble sentiment than to teach the mind a truth in science.

-EDWARD BROOKS.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native mettle of a man is tested.-LOWELL.

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us.-GOETHE.

"It is difficult to estimate the influence of a habit
early formed of doing everything to a finish."
"It is generally the idle who complain they cannot find
time to do that which they fancy they wish."

It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.-LA FONTAINE.

It is not an easy thing to live a life worthy of the time and the effort of a biographer.—BEATTIE.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare to attempt them, but they are difficult because we do not dare to say so.-SENECA.

"It is not ease, but effort; not faculty, but difficulty, that makes a man."

"It is not the position, but the disposition, that makes men happy."

It is our hearers who inspire us.—VINET.

It is possible that a man can be so changed by love that one could not recognize him to be the same person. -TERENCE.

It is the good reader that makes the good book. A good head cannot read amiss.-EMERSON.

It is the law of all organized beings that efficiency presupposes apprenticeship.-HERBERT SPENCER.

It is the principle of war that when one can use the thunderbolt, it should be preferred to cannon.

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-NAPOLEON. It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes. -KOSSUTH.

It is vain to put wealth within the reach of him who will not stretch out his hand to take it.-DR. JOHNSON.

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It is well to think well. It is divine to act well. -HORACE MANN. It lies in our own power to attune the mind to cheerfulness.-AUERBACH.

It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.-JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE.

It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.-GOETHE.

It seems that immortal renown is achieved not so much by the solitary deed of greatness as by humble fidelity to life's detail.-NEWELL D. HILLIS.

It takes a great man to make a good listener.
-SIR ARTHUR PHELPS.

It was impossible for the American Revolution to succeed--but it did.-CHAS. AUSTIN BATES.

It's easy ter have a merry twinkle in th' eye when ev'rything goes well.-UNCLE HENRY.

"It's the good apple tree that has the most clubs
thrown at it."

It's the songs ye sing an' the smiles ye wear
That's a-makin' the sun shine everywhere.

-JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.

It's the trouble that never comes that causes loss of sleep.-CHAS. AUSTIN BATES.

Justice exacts that those by whom we are most benefited should be most admired.-DR. JOHNSON.

Justice is often pale and melancholy; but gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flower of spirits and bloom of loveliness.-LANDOR.

"Keep moving; inactivity is the breathing place of sin."

Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.-THEODORE T. MUNGER. Keep the imagination sane; that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.-HAWTHORNE. Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.—Bible.

Keep yourself persistently at your best.

"Killing time is suicide."

-HENRY CHURCHILL KING.

Kindness in us is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.-LANDOR.

Kindness is something we receive and have to pass along in order to keep it.-HUBBARD.

Know thyself, presume not God to scan.

The proper study of mankind is man.-POPE.

Knowledge is what I love; and the men who dwell in towns are my teachers, not trees and landscape.

-SOCRATES.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.-PLATO.

Labor is the smelter wherein are dumped the crude ores of humanity, for a true test of values.

-Insurance Press.

Laughing cheerfulness throws sunlight on all the paths of life.-RICHTER.

Lay hold of life with both hands, wherever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.-GOETHE.

"Learn a man's limitations. If you make him bite off more than he can chew, don't get mad at him if he has to spit it out."-GEORGE HORACE LORIMER.

Let a broken man cling to his work. If it saves nothing else, it will save him.-BEECHER.

Let an independent thinker show a fearless fidelity to his convictions, and the shafts of bigotry and envy fall helpless and harmless at his feet.-New York Tribune. Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful.

-FRANKLIN.

Let him that thinketh that he standeth take heed lest he fall.-Bible.

Let him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.-CARLYLE.

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it. -LINCOLN.

Liberty is never cheap. It is made difficult, because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man. -EMERSON.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollections of servitude.-CICERO.

Life always takes on the character of its motive. -J. G. HOLLAND. Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.-GEO. WM. CURTIS.

Life is a species of energy, and each man expends his energy in and about those things which chiefly delight him.-ARISTOTLE.

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