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I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Toleration … is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Men, be kind to your fellow-men; this is your first duty, kind to every age and station, kind to all that is not foreign to humanity. What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Margaret Thatcher

Don't gain the world and lose your soul
Wisdom is better than silver and gold.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Richard Branson

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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.