"My mum used to say to me, 'Spit on yer 'ands and take a fresh 'old.' Keep going even if you have setbacks."

-- Lesley Garrett

#Persistence Quotes #Used Quotes #Spit Quotes

“A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.”

Source : Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.403
“The point of taxation isn't that the government knows better than you how to spend your money - it's that the government, by virtue of being the government, can spend money in ways that no private citizen or group no matter how powerful, can.”
“What happened? How did I get here? How could I have known that my choices mattered?”
“In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.”
“The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.”
“For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.”
“Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most.”
“It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.”

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