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Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
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Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
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Charles Simmons
In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.
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James Burgh
Everything in the world may be endured, except continual prosperity.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one is adversity.
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Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
Every divine promise is built upon four pillars; God's justice or holiness, which will not suffer Him to deceive; His grace or goodness, which will not suffer Him to forget; His truth, which will not suffer Him to change; and His power, which makes Him able to accomplish.
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Salter
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
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Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
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Simms
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.
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Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
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