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- We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not;…
- Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
- Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
- Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of…
- If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
- He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
- No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig,…
- Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person.…
- These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection…
- It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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