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- The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. - Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.
- George Matthew Adams
- Sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet XCIV
- Who made the world I cannot tell;
'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed. - A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936)
- You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:
The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world. - Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), The Way of Lao-tzu
- He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
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