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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put…
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come…
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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
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Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
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The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and…
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
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Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
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Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of…
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.
— Horace
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Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
— Cato the Elder
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We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.
— Mary Renault
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Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom…
— Socrates
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When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
— Philip K. Dick
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Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom…
— Paulo Coelho
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Well met, Mistress Lirael. This ragamuffin, as your servant so aptly described him, is His Highness Prince Sameth, the Abhorsen-in-Waiting. Hence the…
— Garth Nix
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I must not step into too spruce a style for serious matters; and yet I approve not the dull insipid way of…
— Robert Boyle
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