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Saturday, June 13, 2009

More Quotes

Quotes, as usual, from A.Word.A.Day.

"He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses." -Horace, poet and satirist (65-8 B.C.)

"Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching." -Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld

"He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it." -Dante Alighieri, poet (1265-1321)

"The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum." -Charles Caleb Colton, author and clergyman (1780-1832)

"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous." -Confucius

"How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success." -Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine, mystic (1782-1857)

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