I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?" ~Brian Tracy
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight. ~Len Goodman
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains. ~Hobart Brown
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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
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There is no burnt rice to a hungry person. ~Philippine Proverb
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Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result. ~Lyle Lovett
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. ~Young Buck
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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ~William Prescott
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Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise. ~Simon Cowell
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. ~David Swing
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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