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Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.: Arthur Wellesley (1769 - 1852), (first Duke of Wellington)
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.: Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
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The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.: Sebastian R. N. Chamfort
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If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.: Brendan Francis
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.: A. Sachs
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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.: Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989
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Victory belongs to the most persevering.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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[Not smoking the cigarette is] a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soulpower to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.: Dr. Frank Crane
What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.: Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
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I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Interview, 1995
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Change your thoughts and you change your world.: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.: Robin Williams (1951 - )
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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.: R. A. Butler (1902 - 1982)
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.: Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599), 1590