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I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.


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AARON HILL Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot! Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?-- Once taug...
AARON HILL Look here, he cries (to give him words): Thou feathered clay, thou scum of birds! Look here, t...
AARON HILL Just as the felon condemn'd to die-- With a very natural loathing-- Leaving the sheriff to dre...
AARON HILL Hundreds of men were turned into beasts, Like the guests at Circe's horrible feasts, By the ma...
AARON HILL He comes to the world, as a gentleman comes To a lodging ready furnished.
AARON HILL For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat.
AARON HILL But, oh! the love that gold must crown!
AARON HILL Behold him in conceited circles sail, Strutting and dancing and now planted stiff, In all his ...
AARON HILL At night, to his own sharp fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, To...
AARON HILL A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth.
AARON HILL A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word, With no pore piety than other people-- A daw's...
AARON HILL Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle...
AARON HILL All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not ...
NAPOLEON HILL Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don'...
NAPOLEON HILL Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools ...
NAPOLEON HILL The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is goin...
NAPOLEON HILL What, then, of the priest's iconic representation of Christ at the altar? If there is no specificall...
WESLEY HILL If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill.
STUART HILL Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
NAPOLEON HILL Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been do...
NAPOLEON HILL Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
NAPOLEON HILL One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is...
NAPOLEON HILL Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
NAPOLEON HILL There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge.
NAPOLEON HILL No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at lea...
NAPOLEON HILL Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
NAPOLEON HILL Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get olde...
GRANT HILL Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
NAPOLEON HILL Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
NAPOLEON HILL The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponde...
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