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- Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- 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)
- You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
- Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
- Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
- Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
- Madame de Tencin
- He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it.
- Pierre Charron
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