"The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today."

Brown, Les on possibilities
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"The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style."

Swift, Jonathan on style
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"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles."

Sun Tzu on strategies
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"The beginning is the half of every action."

Proverb, Greek on beginning
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on action
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"The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences."

Unknown, Source on truth
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"To the timid soul, nothing is possible."

Bach, John on impossibility
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"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."

Goddard, Robert H. on impossibility
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"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

Francis of Assisi, St. on dream
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"A man is a god in ruins."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on drugs
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"Oh yes, funky shit is good."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on funky shit   

"Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on greatness
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"No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good."

Cicero, Marcus T. on courage
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"They condemn what they do not understand."

Cicero, Marcus T. on criticism
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"You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself."

Cicero, Marcus T. on value   

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

Cicero, Marcus T. on books - reading
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"We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue."

Cicero, Marcus T. on action   

"As you have sown so shall you reap."

Cicero, Marcus T. on results
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"Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it."

Thales of Miletus on thoughts and thinking
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"Would yee both eat your cake, and have your cake?"

Heywood, John on uncategorised   

"The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated."

Cicero, Marcus T. on pain
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"While there's life, there's hope."

Cicero, Marcus T. on life
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"I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ignorance
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"Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise."

Heywood, John on weddings   

"Hope is the poor man's bread."

Thales of Miletus on hope
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"The more corrupt the state, the more laws."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on law and lawyers
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"Reason should direct and appetite obey."

Cicero, Marcus T. on reason   

"Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on prayer
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" It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task. "

-Virgil on death   

"Fortune and love favor the brave."

Ovid on courage   

"Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity."

Ovid on solitude
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"What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct."

Ovid on reason   

"You will go most safely in the middle."

Ovid on moderation   

"Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist."

Plutarch on fate
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"I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad."

Terence on excess
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"I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing."

Terence on variety   

"Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful."

Anacharsis on law and lawyers
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"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on emotions
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"A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on focus
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