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    I will not choose what many men desire,
    Because I will not jump with common spirits
    And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.

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Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.

by Confucius Found in: Choice Quotes,
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Preferment goes by letter and affection.

Preferment goes by letter and affection.

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If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,
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If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,
And I will look on both indifferently;
For let the gods so speed me as I love
The name of honor more than I fear death.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Choice Quotes,
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But one thing is needful: and Math hath chosen that good part,
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But one thing is needful: and Math hath chosen that good part,
which shall not be taken away from her.

by Bible Found in: Choice Quotes,
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Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.

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Where passion leads or prudence points the way.

Where passion leads or prudence points the way.

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What voice did on my spirit fall,
Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost?
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What voice did on my spirit fall,
Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost?
'Tis better to have fought and lost
That never to have fought at all!

by Arthur Hugh Clough Found in: Choice Quotes,
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Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

by Tryon Edwards Found in: Choice Quotes,
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If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes.

If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes.

by Alexander, The Great Found in: Choice Quotes,
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