Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.
- Topic: Action, Time
- Location: Lake Utah
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Speak not, but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Historians relate, not so much what is done, as what they would have believed.
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
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