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Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises 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 easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, ...
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.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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COLSON WHITEHEAD All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
BARUCH SPINOZA Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. I record all night and sleep all day.
DAMIAN MARLEY I believe that all things are possible under God.
BROOKE ELLIOTT Faith makes all things possible. Love makes all things easy. Hope makes all things work.
UNKNOWN I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider ...
KAJOL 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 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 Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS 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 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.
CAT STEVENS All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is smal...
LAO TZU All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is smal...
LAO-TZU There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
SAINT BASIL Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
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LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 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 I'm sure that I know that, it's behind one of all doors.
DEYTH BANGER All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.
LAO TZU Time brings all things to pass.
AESCHYLUS Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Energy and persistence conquer all things.
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AUGUSTUS HARE God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
BARUCH SPINOZA God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth.
THALES I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
IDA LUPINO Do noble things, not dream them all day long.
CHARLES KINGSLEY Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
SA'DI The Son of God perishes that we may not perish.

He rises that we may rise.

Tha...
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CHARLES DARWIN All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.
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ALBERT SCHWEITZER All things truly wicked start from innocence.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
OVID All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
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BIBLE But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day.
JONNY GREENWOOD In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.
CHARLES SPURGEON We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die
OLIVER GOLDSMITH It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All go...
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CONFUCIUS It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All go...
RENE DESCARTES If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
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LORRAINE HANSBERRY We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the directio...
JAMES CRAMER Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey ...
LAO TZU Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
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BOB MCCLURE Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
MARK TWAIN The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.
XENOPHANES The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE All things are lessons that God would have us learn.
IYANLA VANZANT Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.
NORMAN MACLEAN Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Only in a novel are all things given full play.
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JODI PICOULT Procrastination can wait for Tomorrrow.
MICHELLE MARIE It's not morbid to miss people.
SHAWN UNDERHILL While getting lost in all those little things that seem so important, don't forget the little things...
VIRGINIA ALISON Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
BIBLE And all shall be well. And all shall be well. And all manner of things shall be exceeding well.
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