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Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.


Benjamin Franklin

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Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all da...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all d...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that rises late must trot all day.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN All things are easy to industry, all things are difficult to sloth.
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SAADI Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. I'm sure that I know that, it's behind one of all doors.
DEYTH BANGER All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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J. K. ROWLING I believe that all things are possible under God.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
IDA LUPINO Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader o...
BIBLE Faith makes all things possible. Love makes all things easy. Hope makes all things work.
UNKNOWN My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.
DWIGHT L. MOODY Faith makes all things possible.... love makes all things easy.
OSCAR WILDE Faith makes all things possible.... love makes all things easy.
ERICH FROMM Tell a child, that he will soon be homeless; he will slowly detach from the world. Tell that same ch...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is smal...
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BOB MCCLURE Do all things with love.
OG MANDINO I can't be all things to everyone.
DELTA GOODREM Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES If I was drowning you would part the sea
And risk your own life to rescue me . . .
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LISA KLEYPAS Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty...
HAILE SELASSIE Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
BIBLE Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all n...
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MISSY ELLIOTT My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.
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JOHN MURRAY All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
JOHN DRYDEN Seriously", Macey snapped. "go. Kiss. A baby"
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ALLY CARTER Never say no to sex
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ANGIE KARAN Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
KHALIL GIBRAN Love... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When he shall die Take him and cut him in little stars And he will make the face of heaven so fine T...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I was missing easy shots all night and every basket at that point was crucial.
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DAN FOGLIO All things are difficult before they are easy.
JOHN NORLEY All things are difficult before they are easy.
DR. THOMAS FULLER All things are difficult before they are easy.
THOMAS FULLER Swallowing, he entered the second code. Then there was a sound like a marble dropping on the floor -...
CHRISTINA ENGELA It has been difficult for him. He still has the desire to play. But he wants to weigh all of his opt...
HERMAN MORRIS Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath t...
BIBLE At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and wi...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA He's just very difficult to handle. He's got all the elements, he's got all the tools and that's wha...
CORY SARICH There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
SAINT BASIL Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When he’s done good and made thing...
LORRAINE HANSBERRY To the voices in our heads that tell us we aren't good enough: do be quiet.
CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The only presence I ever truly need is the presence of God!
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ERIK PEVERNAGIE Man holds dominion and was given free will but the irony is that he must learn to surrender his will...
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JOHN GREEN All things are only transitory.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Change in all things is sweet.
ARISTOTLE Experience is the teacher of all things.
JULIUS CAESAR You can't be all things to all people.
JOSEPH ABBOUD All things deteriorate in time.
VIRGIL There is no law governing all things.
GIORDANO BRUNO All things can be forgiven if we can progress.
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NICHOLAS SPARKS But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed,...
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JILL LEPORE It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle o...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread.
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CONNIE ROSE PORTER I think lots of things, Denny, and I dismiss nothing. When I know, then I'll act.
JACK CALDWELL Do noble things, not dream them all day long.
CHARLES KINGSLEY Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
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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