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- To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
- Charles Buxton
- Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
- Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
- Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.
- John Keats (1795 - 1821)
- Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.
- Edward M. Kennedy (1932 - )
- When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.
- Claude Swanson (1862 - 1939)
- Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy
- Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
- Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
- Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
- Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
- Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
- Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
- John Keats (1795 - 1821)
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