Favourite quotes

Peace is not an absence of conflict, but a prevention of its manifestation.

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True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides it's evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island. To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

- Baltasar Gracian

We never have enough time to do all things, but we have enough time to do the most important ones.

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Succes is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which [were] overcome while trying to succed.

Booker T. Washington

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between Sunrise and Sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

Horace Mann

Get into a fight large enough to be important, and small enough to win it.

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A compromise is an arrangement whereby someone who can't get exactly what he wants makes sure nobody else gets exactly what they want.

Barbara Florio Graham

Even if someone feeds a wolf in the winter, the wolf will eat him in the spring.

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The disease of men is this: that they neglect their own fields, and go to weed the fields of others.

Confucius