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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told
Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and especially on their destinies, as what they do
To do two things at once is to do neither
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Well done is better than well said
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times
We cannot all do all things
Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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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
Human, All Too Human
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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