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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.


Benjamin Franklin

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ANNIE DILLARD If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
SENECA If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .
G.K CHESTERTON [T]he most comic things of all are exactly the things most worth doing--such as making love.
G.K. CHESTERTON If you think my waistline defines my worth, you are not worth my time anyways.
MARIA ELENA You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.
EVAN WILLIAMS To have a calm logical approach to things can be worth its wait in gold if you have the patience for...
GARY F EVANS... Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk ab...
MARY ROACH The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as w...
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QUENTIN CRISP If you are not the best at what you do, then it is not worth it
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BERRY GORDY You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
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ANAïS NIN Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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DON ROFF No matter what you do if it isn't genuine it's not worth doing, if it isn't meant with good heart it...
E.E.D. HORTON Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate...
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P. J. O'ROURKE If God had bid you give them all your estates to own them, or lay down your lives to save them, sure...
RICHARD BAXTER To the young there are no degrees of old just as there are no degrees of dead - either you are, or y...
JOYCE CAROL OATES The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
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MARY ROACH No, I'm not mistaken. I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some...
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IAN MILLAR Some things are worth the risk.
GEORGE DEVALIER Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H COMINS People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H. COMINS People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H COMINS People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H. COMINS Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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STEPHEN KING It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
C.S. LEWIS These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.
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JORDIN SPARKS There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.
CATE BLANCHETT Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE If your life is worth thinking about,it is worth writing about.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervad...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would keep your secret from an enemy,
tell it not to a friend.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN