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He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
~ Seneca 4 BC - 65 AD
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The Bible says we are supposed to forgive people and THEN go and confront them…The reason we are surprised at this is almost always because we confront people who have wronged us as a way of paying them back. By telling them off, we are really getting revenge. …This is absolutely deadly. You are not really telling the truth for their sake: you are telling it for your sake, and fruit of that will be grief, bitterness, and despair.
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Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
~ W. M. Thackeray 1811 - 1863
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Beautiful branches and lacy leaves, no matter how attractive, fail to fortify us as the velocity increases. It takes roots, stubborn, deep powerful roots, to keep us standing. (See Jeremiah 17:8)
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 - 1894
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Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick 1878 - 1969
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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
~ C. S. Lewis 1898 - 1963
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An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton 1874 - 1936
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Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all.
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 - 1892
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When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself, I was perpetually starting new propositions. But I soon gave this over; for I found that generally what was new was false.
~ Samuel Johnson 1709 - 1784
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