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- Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
- Comte de Buffon (1707 - 1788)
- Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
- Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
- You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
- When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
- George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
- You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.
- Brock Chisholm
- Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.
- Russell R. McIntyre
- He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
- Sol Hurok
- Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
- Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
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