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- If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
- Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)
- When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
- George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
- You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.
- Brock Chisholm
- He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
- Sol Hurok
- We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
- Charles Buxton
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