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May. 25th, 2008 10:26 am
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Go to this page: http://quotationspage.com/random.php3, and post 5 that resonate with you - refresh as needed.

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

(NB: a translation for the last of these is the well-known legal principle that the freedom of motion of my fist is limited by the position of my neighbour's nose.)
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Date: 2008-05-25 01:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com
So file that under "things I learned the hard way".

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