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#1

“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
― Jack London

tags: bluffing, making-do, poker

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#2

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

tags: philosophy

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#3

“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: certainty, perspective, presumption, questioning

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#4

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow

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#5

“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
― Ovid, Heroides

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#6

“The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.”
― John Ruskin

tags: reflective

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#7

“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: creation, creativity, criticism, wisdom, wisdom-quote, wise

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#7

“But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.”
― Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus

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#8

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
― Ovid

tags: activism, change, inspirational, perseverance

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#9

“There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

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#10

“Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.”
― Homer, The Iliad

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#11

“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
― Christopher Marlowe

tags: love-at-first-sight

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#12

“Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: leisure, solitude

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#14

“I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!”
― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

tags: folly, heart, love

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#15

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
― Bertrand Russell

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#16

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
― Jack London

tags: days, existence, function, living, mankind, wasting-time

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#17

“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.”
― Thomas Henry Huxley

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#18

“There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.”
― Francis Bacon

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#19

“Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest shall be provided or its loss shall not be felt.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

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#20

“Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.”
― Francis Bacon

tags: discovery, experience, planksip, reasoning

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#21

“If a man insisted on always being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.”
― Herodotus

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#22

“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.”
― Aeschylus

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#23

“Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.”
― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays

tags: strength

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#24

“Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.”
― Seneca

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#25

“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

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#26

“He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.”
― Seneca, On Anger

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#27

“Of this one thing make sure against your dying day - that your faults die before you do.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

tags: faults

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#28

“What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.”
― Seneca, Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium: Latin Text

tags: herato, philosophy, self-knowledge, seneca, stoicism

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#29

“Every day as it comes should be welcomed and reduced forthwith into our own possession as if it were the finest day imaginable. What flies past has to be seized at.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

tags: time

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#30

“I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.”
― Alfred Tennyson

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