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"Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age"

--TACITUS.
The great secret both of health and successful industry is the
absolute yielding up of one's consciousness to the business and
diversion of the hour--never permitting the one to infringe in the
least degree upon the other.--SISMONDI.
Few people do business well who do nothing else.--CHESTERFIELD.
To men addicted to delights, business is an interruption; to such as
are cold to delights, business is an entertainment. For which reason
it was said to one who commended a dull man for his application, "No
thanks to him; if he had no business, he would have nothing to
do."--STEELE.

CARE.--To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
--HALIBURTON.
Cast all your care on God: that anchor holds.--TENNYSON.
Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And every grin, so merry, draws one out.
--DR. WOLCOT.
He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his
God, has found the sunny side of life.--SPURGEON.

CAUTION.--It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of
others.--PUBLIUS SYRUS.
Vessels large may venture more,
But little boats should keep near shore.
--BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.--VICTOR HUGO.
All is to be feared where all is to be lost.--BYRON.

CENSURE.--Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure which
is useful to them to praise which deceives them.


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