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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd. Edward de Bono
You Opportunities Wait Will Crowd Occur
Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it. Eileen Caddy
Life Work Have Fun Live Enjoy Forget Really Fun Play
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
God Dreams Best Man Gifts Shame Put
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Genius Power Individuality New Expressing
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without. Elizabeth I
Man Worth One-Man Head Without His Shoulders Dozen
To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it. Elizabeth I
King Glorious Pleasant Wear See More Bear Crown Than Them Thing
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind. Elizabeth I
Me You Will Sex Wind Bends Considered Weak Though Find Nevertheless Rock Which Belong
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths. Elizabeth I
Fair Shines Brass Gold Ignorant
I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them. Elizabeth Taylor
Doors Feel Opened Adventurous Look Very Behind Afraid Them Many
If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down. Elizabeth Taylor
Me Picture Down Enough Someone Make Dollars Dumb Offer Turn Certainly Million Million Dollars
Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses. Elizabeth Taylor
Best Men Some Horses Leading Dogs Been
Honest people don't hide their deeds. Emily Bronte
People Hide Deeds Honest Honest People
Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead. Emmeline Pankhurst
Human Being Matter Crime Men Too Criminals Punishment Solitary Solitary Confinement Instead Terrible Said Prisons His Beg Any Often Human Inflict Being Confinement Hardened Lash
It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote in sufficient numbers, by combination, you can get out of any legislature whatever you want, or, if you cannot get it, you can send them about their business and choose other people who will be more attentive to your demands. Emmeline Pankhurst
You Business Vote People Logical Mind Will Whatever Other Evident Out About Proper More Perfectly Combination Attentive Demands Got Get Send Any Legislature Want Cannot Them Use Your Choose Who Sufficient Numbers
God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament. Evelyn Underhill
God Gratitude You Meet Sacrament Him Always Coming Moment Present Receive Present Moment
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. Evelyn Underhill
Wisdom Kindness Patience Opportunities Sympathy Seek Deliberately
Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves. Florence Nightingale
Time Day People Long Sit Enough Late Rarely More No Time Because Up Get Themselves Why Early
However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them. Francesca Annis
Relationship You Dating However Close Close Relationship Substitute Them Successful Need
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. Francis Bacon
God Back Philosophy Atheism Small Small Amounts Lead Us Larger Amount Bring
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. Francis Bacon
Nature Man Justice Revenge Law Weed Wild Ought Out Kind Runs More Which
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider. Francis Bacon
Take For Granted Believe Consider Take Weigh Read Nor Contradict Granted
Silence is the virtue of fools. Francis Bacon
Silence Fools Virtue
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. Francis Bacon
Strength Will Thought Marshal Armor Fort Fortitude Reason
Opportunity makes a thief. Francis Bacon
Opportunity Thief Makes
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. Francis Bacon
Good Example Advice Down Other Bad Bad Example Gives Both Counsel He Builds Hand Good Advice
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Francis Bacon
Man Will Shall He Content End Begin Doubts Certainties
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