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- Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
- John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
- It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
- Hesiod (~800 BC)
- Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
- Norman Douglas
- Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), 'The Pilgrim's Regress'
- Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), (attributed)
- Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
- Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
- Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)
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