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- Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
- Caecilius Statius (220 BC - 168 BC)
- May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.
- Anonymous
- I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.
- Terence (185 BC - 159 BC)
- Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; Grief not, rather find, Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of Human suffering, In the faith that looks through death In years that bring philophic mind. - William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
- Nay, tempt me not to love again:
There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again. - Sir Thomas More (1478 - 1535)
- Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.
- Jean de la Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
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