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- Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
- Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)
- Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
- Evelyn Underhill
- Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
- Indian Proverb
- Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
- Chinese Proverb
- Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
- Ivan Pavlov (1849 - 1936)
- No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.
- Tom Thompson
- If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.
- Ausonius
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