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- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
- Oriental Proverb
- Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
- It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- We are advertis'd by our loving friends.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
- Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
- Arnold Bennett
- You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
- Beverly Sills (1929 - )
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