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• Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

  Ezra Stiles

  America, Forgotten

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• The road goes ever on and on

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Books And Movies, Fellowship, Gondor

  The Fellowship of the Ring bk. 1, ch. 1 (1954)

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• Not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done.

  John Green

  Hipster, Done, Hardest

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.304, A&C Black

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• Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

  Thomas Harris

  Writing, Digging, Done

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• Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

  Barry Gibb

  Liars, Australia, Leaving

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• Until Christ is our treasure, any other motivation we have to suffer for him is a fool’s errand.

  Matt Chandler

  Motivation, Suffering, Treasure

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• The cheek
  Is apter than the tongue to tell an errand.

  William Shakespeare

  Tongue, Countenance, Cheeks

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1363, Oxford University Press

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• Success is completion. Success is being able to complete what we set out to do - each individual action, each specific step, each desired experience whether a big project or a very small errand.

  Susan Collins

  Success, Able, Steps

  Susan Collins (1996). “Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press

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• The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Boys, Night, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you’re on the Lord’s errand, you’re entitled to the Lord’s blessings.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Blessing, Lord, Entitled

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• Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite

  Diane Ackerman

  Running, Love Is, Mystery

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.1, Vintage

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• The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand.

  Tim Ferriss

  Money, Quests, Cash

  "The 4-Hour Workweek". Book by Timothy Ferriss, 2007.

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• Life was a fool's errand, carrying news to the worms.

  Kylie Tennant

  Life, News, Fool

  Kylie Tennant (1968). “Lost Haven”

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• Do not go on His errands till first you have sat at His feet.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Feet, Goes On, Firsts

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• The Lord’s purposes are often accomplished as we pay heed to the guidance of the Spirit. I believe that the more we act upon the inspiration and impressions which come to us, the more the Lord will entrust to us His errands.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Believe, Inspiration, Purpose

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• The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Doors, Feet, Poetry

  The Fellowship of the Ring bk. 1, ch. 1 (1954)

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• How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. That is my everyday business. I am as busy as a bee about it. I ramble over fields on that errand and am never so happy as when I feel myself heavy with honey and wax. I am like a bee searching the livelong day for the sweets of nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sweet, Flower, Everyday

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.204, Penguin

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• I'm an animal. I'm an animal in real-life and an animal onstage. I never became a recluse, I never lived up in the Hills where I didn't see real life. You know what I mean? I'm not still living in Brooklyn, but I'm still living in the street. I go out by myself, I don't go out with a million body guards, I run my own errands.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Running, Real, Mean

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I’m Adorable. I Look like Keira Knightley Running Errands!

  Mindy Kaling

  Running, Adorable, Looks

  "The Mindy Project Recap: Miserables Sans Casey" by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, www.vulture.com. October 9, 2013.

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• Donald Trump insisted yesterday that he is not racist, because one time an African-American won Apprentice. Because nothing says 'not racist' like making a black man run your errands.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Men, Yesterday

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• Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands.

  Hugh Nibley

  Book, Angel, Missionary

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• Diets are a fool’s errand. I eat something sweet every day, whether it’s chocolate or a cookie. If I don’t, I guarantee you that there’s going to be a day every week when I’m going to stuff myself, especially if it’s PMS time.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Sweet, Pms, Chocolate

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• It is impossible for us to fail when we do our best when we are on the Lord's errand.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Impossible

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• No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.

  James Russell Lowell

  Work, Blessed, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1876). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.52

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• The Lord will always prepare a way for you to escape from the trials you will be given if you understand two things. One is that you need to be on the Lord's errand. The second thing you need to understand is that the escape will almost never be out of the trial; it will usually be through it.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Two, Understanding, Preparation

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