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Seneca
The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
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Anonymous
A closed mouth gathers no feet.
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Benjamin King
Nowhere to fall but off, Nowhere to stand but on.
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G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them.
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Baltasar Gracian
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
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Samuel Butler
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Vince Lombardi
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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Elzear Blaze, La Vie Militaire
In the career of glory one gains many things; the gout and medals, a pension and rheumatism....And also frozen feet, an arm or leg the less, a bullet lodged between two bones which the surgeon cannot extract....all of these fatigues experienced in your youth, you pay for when you grow old. Because one has suffered in years gone by, it is necessary to suffer more, which does not seem exactly fair.
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English Proverb
First deserve, and then desire.
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George Eliot
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
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Ronald Reagan
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
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Johann von Goethe
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal.
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