Better three hours too soon, than a minute too late.
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Better three hours too soon, than a minute too late.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.
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Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
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Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
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This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
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In medias res.
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Suae quisque fortunae faber.
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I cannot lose the only thing that keeps me alive: hope. A word that is often with us in the morning, gets wounded throughout the day, and dies at dusk, but resurrects with the dawn.
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know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
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