Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine. Book II
Let no act be done at haphazard, nor otherwise than according to the finished rules that govern its kind. Book IV
“Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring / Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling: / The Bird of Time has but a little way / To flutter — and the Bird is on the Wing.” Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. Pride and Prejudice
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