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  • William Shakespeare He is well paid that is well satisfied.
    Source: The merchant of Venice (1597)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes He preaches well that lives well.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Hilarie Belloc He served his God so faithfully and well
    that now he sees him face to face, in Hell.
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  • Richard Hooker He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.
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  • Baltasar Gracián He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • William Shakespeare He that is well paid is well satisfied.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Heywood Brown He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.
    Heywood Brown
     
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  • Elbert Hubbard He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • B. C. Forbes He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.
    Source: Prodigal Summer
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Daisy Ashford Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
    Daisy Ashford
    English writer (1881 - 1972)
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  • B. W. Powe Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.
    Source: Towards A Canada of Light Maxims and Enigmas, p. 29
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Mark Twain History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Alexander Pope Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • William Shenstone Hope is a flatterer but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut as well as the palace of his superior.
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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