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John Christian Bovee

It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered. The Chinese say, "The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall."

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Kay Boyle

There is only one history of importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in and the history of what you came to believe in.

History | Wisdom |

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Phillips Brooks

Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.

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G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

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Noah Weinberg, fully Rabbi Yisrael Noah Weinberg

Killing time is suicide on the installment plan.

Plan | Suicide | Time | Wisdom |

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

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Robert Burns, aka Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, Robden of Solway Firth, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as simply The Bard

No man can tether time or tide.

Man | Time | Wisdom |

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Samuel Butler

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

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Richard Francis Burton, fully Sir Richard Francis Burton

Conscience is a great ledger book in which all our offenses are written and registered, and which time reveals to the sense and feeling of the offender.

Conscience | Sense | Time | Wisdom |

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William Ellery Channing

It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour in the day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.

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Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Into what boundless life does education admit us. Every truth gained through it expands a moment of time into illimitable being - positively enlarges our existence, and endows us with qualities which time cannot weaken or destroy.

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

There is a time in the lives of most of us when, despondent of all joy in an earthly future, and tortured by conflicts between inclination and duty, we transfer all the passion and fervor of our troubled souls to enthusiastic yearnings for the divine love, looking to its mercy, and taking thence the only hopes that can cheer - the only strength that can sustain us.

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Bruce Burton

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, business-wise?

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Bewail lost time far more than gold in store. ‘For chattels lost may yet recovered be, but time lost ruins us for aye, says he. It will not come again, once it has fled... Let’s not grow moldy thus in idleness.

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Roy D. Chapin, Jr., fully Roy Dikeman Chapin, Jr.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

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Boake Carter

In time of war the first casualty is truth.

Time | Truth | War | Wisdom |

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