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John Clarke, Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina, 1639
Who is more busy than he who hath least to do?
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Hebrews 11:1, The Bible (King James Version)
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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Hal Lancaster
Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.
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Douglas Adams
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
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Isaac Newton
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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Seneca
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.
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Stephen King
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.
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Jonathan Swift
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Bill Bernbach
The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.
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W. Somerset Maugham
By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
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Ronald Reagan
People don't start wars, governments do.
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Victor Cousin
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.
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