How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
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Marcus Aurelius
Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare, " said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you...
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Brenda Ueland
Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")
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William S. Wilson
We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always.
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Clive Barker
It's a most peculiar psychology–this business of 'Science is based on faith too, so there! ' Typically this is said by people who claim that faith is a good thing. Then why do they say 'Science is based on faith too! ' in that angry-triumphal...
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
More Quotes By Pietro Metastasio
The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.
If every man's internal care Were written on his brow How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.
