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- It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.
- Georges Rouault (1871 - 1958)
- Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
- Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
- Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
- Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12
- Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
- Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599), 1590
- The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
- Denis Watley
- The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), 438 B.C.
- It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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