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- Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
- Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
- Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
- William Penn (1644 - 1718)
- The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
- Dale Carnegie
- Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.
- Anonymous
- Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax.
- Dianne Hales
- Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day.
- Sharon Gold
- In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
- First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
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