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- Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
- There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
- Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
- The Talmud
- We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
- Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
- Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
- George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)
- Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.
- Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
- The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.
- R. D. Hitchcock
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