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- This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
- Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004
- Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
- Harold Bloom (1930 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
- A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
- Salman Rushdie (1947 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
- What I dream of is an art of balance.
- Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954), O Magazine, April 2003
- So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
- Francis J. Braceland, O Magazine, April 2003
- Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
- Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)
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