[
  {
    "author": "Abraham Lincoln",
    "text": "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
  },
  {
    "author": "Abraham Lincoln",
    "text": "Important principles may, and must, be inflexible."
  },
  {
    "author": "Abraham Lincoln",
    "text": "I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."
  },
  {
    "author": "Abraham Lincoln",
    "text": "You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was."
  },
  {
    "author": "Abraham Lincoln",
    "text": "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be"
  },
  {
    "author": "Abraham Lincoln",
    "text": "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
  },
  {
    "author": "Abraham Lincoln",
    "text": "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
  },
  {
    "author": "Abraham Lincoln",
    "text": "When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."
  },
  {
    "author": "Abraham Lincoln",
    "text": "The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time."
  },
  {
    "author": "Abraham Lincoln",
    "text": "Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
  },
  {
    "author": "Abraham Lincoln",
    "text": "As our case is new, we must think and act anew."
  },
  {
    "author": "Abraham Lincoln",
    "text": "Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
  },
  {
    "author": "Abraham Lincoln",
    "text": "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."
  },
  {
    "author": "Abraham Lincoln",
    "text": "I walk slowly, but I never walk backward."
  },
  {
    "author": "Abraham Lincoln",
    "text": "Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."
  },
  {
    "author": "Abraham Lincoln",
    "text": "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
  },
  {
    "author": "Abraham Lincoln",
    "text": "I will prepare and some day my chance will come."
  },
  {
    "author": "Benjamin Franklin",
    "text": "Well done is better than well said."
  },
  {
    "author": "Benjamin Franklin",
    "text": "One today is worth two tomorrows."
  },
  {
    "author": "Benjamin Franklin",
    "text": "There never was a good knife made of bad steel."
  },
  {
    "author": "Benjamin Franklin",
    "text": "Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship."
  },
  {
    "author": "Benjamin Franklin",
    "text": "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
  },
  {
    "author": "Charles Dickens",
    "text": "Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you have done the most you could."
  },
  {
    "author": "Frederick Douglass",
    "text": "If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
  },
  {
    "author": "George Eliot",
    "text": "It is never too late to be what you might have been."
  },
  {
    "author": "George Eliot",
    "text": "What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"
  },
  {
    "author": "Henry David Thoreau",
    "text": "I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better."
  },
  {
    "author": "Henry David Thoreau",
    "source": "https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/henry_david_thoreau_106427",
    "tags": "price, priorities, life",
    "text": "The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."
  },
  {
    "author": "Mark Twain",
    "text": "A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes."
  },
  {
    "author": "Mark Twain",
    "text": "Happiness is a Swedish sunset it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it."
  },
  {
    "author": "Mark Twain",
    "text": "Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said."
  },
  {
    "author": "Mark Twain",
    "text": "When in doubt, tell the truth."
  },
  {
    "author": "Mark Twain",
    "text": "Whoever is happy will make others happy, too."
  },
  {
    "author": "Mark Twain",
    "text": "The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life."
  },
  {
    "author": "Mark Twain",
    "text": "Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
  },
  {
    "author": "Mark Twain",
    "text": "There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded."
  },
  {
    "author": "Mark Twain",
    "text": "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."
  },
  {
    "author": "Mark Twain",
    "text": "To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with."
  },
  {
    "author": "Mark Twain",
    "text": "Happiness is a sunset - it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it."
  },
  {
    "author": "Oscar Wilde",
    "text": "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
  },
  {
    "author": "Oscar Wilde",
    "text": "The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."
  },
  {
    "author": "Oscar Wilde",
    "text": "The aim of life is self-development. To realize ones nature perfectly that is what each of us is here for."
  },
  {
    "author": "Oscar Wilde",
    "text": "The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."
  },
  {
    "author": "Oscar Wilde",
    "text": "Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it."
  },
  {
    "author": "Oscar Wilde",
    "text": "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
  },
  {
    "author": "Oscar Wilde",
    "source": "https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/19884-be-yourself-everyone-else-is-already-taken",
    "tags": "stoic",
    "text": "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
  },
  {
    "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson",
    "text": "Our strength grows out of our weaknesses."
  },
  {
    "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson",
    "text": "It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen."
  },
  {
    "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson",
    "text": "Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."
  },
  {
    "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson",
    "text": "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."
  },
  {
    "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson",
    "text": "Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man."
  },
  {
    "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson",
    "text": "Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine."
  },
  {
    "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson",
    "text": "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail."
  },
  {
    "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
    "text": "There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
  },
  {
    "author": "Thomas Jefferson",
    "text": "Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."
  },
  {
    "author": "Thomas Jefferson",
    "text": "Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
  },
  {
    "author": "Thomas Jefferson",
    "text": "I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
  },
  {
    "author": "Thomas Jefferson",
    "text": "Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do."
  },
  {
    "author": "Thomas Jefferson",
    "text": "Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error."
  },
  {
    "author": "William Blake",
    "text": "In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy."
  },
  {
    "author": "William Blake",
    "text": "For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life."
  },
  {
    "author": "William Blake",
    "source": "https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/218205",
    "tags": "Advice, Rest, Nutrition",
    "text": "Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
  },
  {
    "author": "William Shakespeare",
    "text": "Having nothing, nothing can he lose."
  },
  {
    "author": "William Shakespeare",
    "text": "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
  },
  {
    "author": "William Shakespeare",
    "text": "He that is giddy thinks the world turns round."
  },
  {
    "author": "William Shakespeare",
    "text": "Speak low, if you speak love."
  },
  {
    "author": "William Shakespeare",
    "text": "Be great in act, as you have been in thought."
  },
  {
    "author": "William Shakespeare",
    "text": "Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
  },
  {
    "author": "William Shakespeare",
    "text": "How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world."
  },
  {
    "author": "William Shakespeare",
    "text": "God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
  },
  {
    "author": "William Shakespeare",
    "text": "Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know."
  },
  {
    "author": "William Shakespeare",
    "text": "We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
  },
  {
    "author": "William Shakespeare",
    "text": "To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first."
  },
  {
    "author": "William Shakespeare",
    "text": "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
  }
]