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The really idle man get nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much farther.


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The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further.
SIR HENEAGE OGILVIE The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further.
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The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further.
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WALTER RALEIGH, SR. Broadway is a place where people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't need to im...
HENRY WOTTON, SR. Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all
HENRY WOTTON, SR. This man is free from servile bonds Of hope to rise or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of ...
HENRY WOTTON, SR. Love lodged in a woman's breast, Is but a guest
HENRY WOTTON, SR. Where strained, sardonic smiles are glozing still, And grief is forced to laugh against her will.
HENRY WOTTON, SR. He first deceased, She for a little, tried; To live without him, Liked it not, and died
HENRY WOTTON, SR. Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries
HENRY WOTTON, SR. An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without ...
HENRY WOTTON, SR. An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
HENRY WOTTON, SR. All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be t...
HUGH WALPOLE, SR. Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
HUGH WALPOLE, SR. Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world
HUGH WALPOLE, SR. 'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.
HUGH WALPOLE, SR. The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with wh...
HUGH WALPOLE, SR. I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive coun...
FRANCIS BACON SR. It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
FRANCIS BACON SR. Courage is not merely a virtue; it is the virtue. Without it, there are no other virtues.
WILLIAM TEMPLE SR. Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
JAMES DEWAR SR. Like the strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and ...
FRANCIS BACON SR. It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propo...
FRANCIS BACON SR. In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of th...
FRANCIS BACON SR.