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- Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
- Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
- Mary Hemingway
- When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
- Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
- Vigorous writing is concise.
- William Strunk Jr., "The Elements of Style", 1919
- Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
- Jewish Proverb
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