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The Times Great Quotations: Famous quotes to inform, motivate and inspire

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2018
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Lord Chesterfield, British statesman (1694–1773)



Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

Mainly on the Air (1946)

Sir Max Beerbohm, English essayist and parodist (1872–1956)



Truly, when the day of judgment comes, it will not be a question of what we have read, but what we have done.

De Imitatione Christi (c. 1418–1427)

Thomas а Kempis, Dutch-German canon regular and writer (1380–1471)



Men are rewarded and punished not for what they do, but rather for how their acts are defined. This is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

The Second Sin (1973)

Thomas Szasz, American-Hungarian psychiatrist (1920–2012)

ADVICE AND PRINCIPLES (#ulink_764c27b7-74f3-5d53-ba8d-5719e086b897)

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

Albert Einstein, German theoretical physicist (1879–1955)



There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Time Must Have a Stop (1944)

Aldous Huxley, English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)



Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Arthur Ashe, American tennis player and Aids activist (1943–1993)



If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Lacon (1820)

Charles Caleb Colton, English cleric (1780–1832)



Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens, English writer and social critic (1812–1870)



Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.

Charles I, King of England (1600–1649)



When environment changes, there must be a corresponding change in life.

The Wartime Journals (1970)

Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (1902–1974)



Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having — they are very few — and then do what you think best yourself.

Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist leader (1846–1891)



A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Charlotte Bront?, English writer (1816–1855)



If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Ad Familiares IX, 4

Cicero, Roman statesman (106–43 BC)



Stand a little less between me and the sun.

[On being asked by Alexander the Great what he could do for him]
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