Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
Author: Publilius Syrus
Work: Maxims
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
Author: Horace
Work: Odes
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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Author: Laurence J. Peter
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An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
Author: Publilius Syrus
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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Author: William Shakespeare
Work: The Merchant of Venice, Act 1 scene 3
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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
Author: Winston Churchill
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Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Author: Khalil Gibran
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Author: Albert Einstein
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Work: Man and Superman" (1903), act I
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Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
Author: Winston Churchill
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
Author: Plato
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He who knows others is wise;
He who know himself is enlightened.
Author: Lao Tzu
Work: The Way of Lao-tzu
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