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Thursday, 7 December 2017

Quotes 8 Dec 17

No-one looking in the mirror sees their own biases.- GJW

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. -Chinese Proverb

Conscience itself, which is ordained, as the urine of the body, to shew the estate of the whole, and therefore is accordingly called good or evil as the man’s state is, this is apt in such distempers to change and turn colour, and look to a man’s own view as foul as the state of a very hypocrite.”- Thomas Goodwin Works III, p. 254.

He who has begun is half done.  Dare to be wise; begin! --Horace (65-8 BC) _Epistles_; Book 1, Epistle 2, Line 40

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. --Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658) _The Art of Worldly Wisdom_ [1647]

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