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“Take courage, my friend; tomorrow may be a better day for you.”
Theocritus
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“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”
Fontaine
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“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.)”
Fontaine
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“I know what the caged bird feels, alas!”
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“Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?”
Aeschylus
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“ Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave. ”
Pericles
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“In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order. ”
Will Durant
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“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.”
Hypatia
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“I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. ”
Sandburg Carl
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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
Orwell George
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“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.”
Goethe
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“You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time, will think of us. ”
Sappho
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“The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. ”
Thucydides
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“Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. ”
Horace
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“Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves”
Crevel Rene
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“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
Eliot Thomas
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“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
Chanel
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“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. ”
Joyce James
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“Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. ”
Trotsky Leon
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“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
London Jack
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“Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it. ”
Richelieu
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“To see a World in a Grain of Sand <br> And a Heaven in a Wild Flower <br> Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand<br> And Eternity in an hour. <br>”
Blake William
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“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. ”
Presley Elvis
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“Always the perfect, unworthy lover of the endless voyage and azure ocean”
Kavvadias
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“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. ”
Khayyam Omar
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“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ”
Berlioz Hector