"Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out."
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"He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - Ben Franklin"
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"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."
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"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."
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"When you are good to others, you are best to yourself."
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"Eat to live, not live to eat."
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"Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good."
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"As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes; and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity."
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"There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead"
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"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
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"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
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"When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?"
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"This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other."
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"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!"
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"That which hurts, also instructs."
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"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
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"Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense."
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"He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing."
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"The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished."
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"Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man."
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