"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."
-Oliver Goldsmith
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"A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.“
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"Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse."
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"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."
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"I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."
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"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook."
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"Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!"
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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
-George Orwell
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"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."
-Jim Rohn
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
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"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
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"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
-Marcus Aurelius
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"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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