'A quick meme' of quotes

Jason Kottke engages in what he delightfully calls 'a quick meme' (ten a penny these days, do one while you step into the kitchen for a snack) in which you look through random quotations until you find five that you like or relate to. Mine:

• The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent. -Dr Smiley Blanton
• It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation. -John Gray in Children Are From Heaven
• Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty. -Jefferson Davis
• It is not enough to aim; you must hit. -Italian Proverb
• Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible. -Mark Jenkins in To Timbuktu
  

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