"Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive."

Caution, Temptation, Path, Life, Choice

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"Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive."

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"There are so many downsides to the message of looking for miracles."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Do not invest time and money into yourself to have others completely destroy it!"

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"Before you take that first curious, coerced, spiteful, or vengeful step forward, remember this: it's a thousand times easier to slip into a muddy pit than it is to climb out of one."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Anyone who takes the risk of leaving God for a while, risks his life in eternity."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Some gifts are baits! Watch out!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"The source of a river is narrow. If you could jump over it in a twinkle of an eye at the source, be sure to ponder before you jump over it at its mid or its estuary."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"Two hands cut down a few trees, but one matchstick clears a forest."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Be careful of those who would only be around you if they are doing better than you. People of such nature would likely become your worst enemies if you start doing better than them."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

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"Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art."

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"For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going."

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"One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism."

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"I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader."

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"Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se."

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"The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates."

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"The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what's going on in front of me."

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"She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it."

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"But someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. Someone let your peoples forget it was the only thing of importance, choosing. . . How to choose any but a child's greedy choices if there is no loving-filled father to guide, inform, teach the person how to choose? How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?"

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"What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration."

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