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- Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
- Scottish Proverb
- Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
- John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
- Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off!
- Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
- Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
- H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
- Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
- Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
- Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
- Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
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