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 A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.  There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. Poets have a license to lie. It takes about five years for a walnut tree to produce nuts, but this is not true of a family tree. No man ever became very wicked all at once. - Juvenal O wad some power the giftie gie us to see some people before they see us. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time. If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. Mothers can get weaned as well as babies. All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and ... you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold. Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm. Misery is a communicable disease. There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic. Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows. The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything. All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith. 
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