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Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
The hardest work in the world is that which should have been done yesterday.: Author Unknown
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.: John Christian Bovee
Too many of us wait to do the perfect thing, with the result we do nothing. The way to get ahead is to start now. While many of us are waiting until conditions are "just right" before we go ahead, others are stumbling along, fortunately ignorant of the dangers that beset them. By the time we are, in our superior wisdom, decided to make a start, we discover that those who have gone fearlessly on before, have, in their blundering way, traveled a considerable distance. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now, and that you will not know next year, if you wait.: The William Feather Magazine
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.: Bishop Taylor
Pride is the common forerunner of a fall. It was the devil's sin, and the devil's ruin; and has been, ever since, the devil's stratagem, who, like as expert wrestler, usually gives a man a lift before he gives a throw.: South
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.: Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.: Johnson
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.: Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971)
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.: Henry Bolingbroke

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