Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer. ~Frank Sinatra
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Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first. ~Tom Hiddleston
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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The sinning is the best part of repentance. ~Arabic Proverb
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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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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Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful. ~Walter Huston
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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Earth is dearer than gold. ~English Proverb
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. ~Bernard of Clairvaux
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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