"Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave,……" — Eleanor Roosevelt
"Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success."
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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390 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
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We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
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No one from the beginning of time has had security.
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The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the…
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Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own…
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The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they…
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Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
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Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to…
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small…
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Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.
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Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.
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The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with…
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My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
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Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.
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