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"Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet."
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"Discipline is needed in our temperance."
"To live long it is necessary to live slowly."
"I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them."
"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."
"Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin."
"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
"We never repent of having eaten too little."
"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."
"Money is like fire. It is only good when there's just the right amount of it, when it's properly contained and under your control."
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"I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people."
"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas,at the long course of the rivers,at the vast compass of the ocean,at the circular motion of the stars,and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."
"Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times."
"Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery."
"It's not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds."
"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell."
"To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement."
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