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Your Quotes for 22 December 2005 - Larkin's Choice

Larkin Jean Van Horn was born at Seattle, Washington on this day in, well, let's just say it was a year with a 5 in it. Having seen five years of my quotation choices, and having put up with me for over twenty years, she felt entitled to choose today's quotes. I had no argument with that, particularly not after seeing her excellent choices.

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
     - Everett Edward Hale, 1822 - 1909

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
     - Lillian Hellman, 1905 - 1984

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
     - May Sarton, 1912 - 1995

If you have made mistakes ... there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
     - Mary Pickford, 1893 - 1979

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storms terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
     - Vincent van Gogh, 1853 - 1890

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
     - Lillian Smith, 1897 - 1966

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