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Jim Bishop
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
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Buddha, The Dhammapada
Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.
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Publilius Syrus
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
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Saint Francis de Sales
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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William Hazlitt
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
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George Herbert
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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H. G. Wells, Outline of History (1920)
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Edmund Burke
You can never plan the future by the past.
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John Cheever
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
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Samuel Smiles
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
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Juvenal
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Dan Quayle
It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
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