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- Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
- Antisthenes (445 BC - 365 BC)
- Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert Service (1874 - 1958)
- The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.
- John Irving (1942 - )
- Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
- Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
- Our envy of others devours us most of all.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
- Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.
- Chilo
- Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
- Indian Proverb
- So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
- Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
- If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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