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Henry Thoreau
Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this
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Baltasar Graci�n y Morales
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity
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Publilius Syrus
A good opportunity is seldom presented, and is easily lost
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Publilius Syrus
The opportunity is often lost by deliberating
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Voltaire
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year
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Ovid
While I am speaking the opportunity is lost
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Ovid
Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled; nor can the hour, which has once fled by, return again
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Francis Bacon
Opportunity makes a thief
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Francis Bacon
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds
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Francis Bacon
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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