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- Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
- Chinese Proverb
- Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
- Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
- Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
- William Wirt (1772 - 1834)
- Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
- Vachel Lindsay (1879 - 1931)
- Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.
- The Talmud
- If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
- Brendan Francis
- Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Frank Scully
- Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
- French Proverb
- Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
- Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), The Mother, 1932
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