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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 197
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.
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Joseph Addison
There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Though a man has all other perfections and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.
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Unknown
Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.
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H.L. Mencken
Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.
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Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
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Emil Nolde
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
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Rosalyn S. Yalow
The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.
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Edmund Burke
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.
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Unknown, The Bhagavad Gita
For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?
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Seneca
Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.
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