Proverbs are potted wisdom.

Charles Buxton

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You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

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A successful career has been full of blunders.

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Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

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You cannot win without sacrifice.

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You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

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The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one person and another-between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant-is energy-invisible determination.

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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

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The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.

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Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

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Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.

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A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.

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Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

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I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

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A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.

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In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

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Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.

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In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

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In one family, all goes by two and two. If a member of it has any interest, he or she will confide it to some one other; but the rest know nothing. In another family, all feel what touches one; nothing is kept dark from the father and mother, brothers and sisters--all share. This family habit is by far the better, it strengthens the tie between the members, and makes the home one home.

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All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

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In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit.

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