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- Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Don't fall before you're pushed.
- English Proverb
- To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
- Chinese Proverb
- Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
- Bible, New Testament, I Thessalonians
- Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
- Chinese Proverb
- Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
- God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.
- Tom Thompson
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