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Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.

—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

—Edmund Spenser

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Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.

—Barbara Mikkelson

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Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.

—Francis Bacon

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This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man.

—William Shakespeare

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Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world.

—Samahria Lyte Kaufman

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I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.

—Stephanie Barron

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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

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How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

—Fred Brooks

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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

—Malcolm X

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What you cannot enforce, do not command.

—Sophocles

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If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

—Cher

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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

—Og Mandino

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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

—William Cobbett

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