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No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as read more
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you read more
Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you read more
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, read more
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active read more
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
