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- He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
- Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
- Kathleen Norris
- It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
- Queen Christina (1626 - 1689), of Sweden
- You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Irish Proverb
- Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
- John Witherspoon (1723 - 1794)
- Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
- Paxton Hood
- Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
- Austin Phelps
- Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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