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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Benjamin Franklin

What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.

Friedrich Holderlin

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Walter Bagehot

Idleness is the beginning of all vices.

Proverb

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

Charles Caleb Colton

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.

Mignon McLaughlin

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Frederick B. Wilcox

Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase - that's what wild geese are for.

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

Lawrence J. Peter

Life is full of obstacle illusions.

Grant Frazier

Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them.

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.

Charles DeLint

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Woody Allen

Know your limits, but never stop trying to exceed them.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

George Bernard Shaw

Map out your future, but do it in pencil.

Jon Bon Jovi

The only thing that has to be finished by next Tuesday is next Monday.

Jennifer Yane

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan
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