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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Bliss Carman Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • George Carlin Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
    George Carlin
    American stand-up comedian, actor and author (1937 - 2008)
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  • George Carlen Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.
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  • Bo Bennett Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Michael Levine Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
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  • Thomas à Kempis He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • John Aubrey He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
    John Aubrey
    English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer (1626 - 1697)
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  • Samuel Butler He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Epictetus He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • David Hume He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Samuel Johnson He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.''
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Tryon Edwards He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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