"That which is good to be done, cannot be done too soon; and if it is neglected to be done early, it will frequently happen that it will not be done at all."

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Source : RICHARD MANT (1815). “SERMONS, FOR PAROCHIAL AND DOMESTIC USE”, p.285

Richard Mant

#Done Quotes #Goodness Quotes #Neglected Quotes

“It doesn't matter how many people you offend, as long as you're getting your message to your consumers. I say to those people who do not want to offend anybody: You are going to have a very, very difficult time having meaningful advertising.”
“In Waziristan people get really upset when there are no drone attacks. Their apprehension is that the US and Pakistani government might enter in an agreement to halt the attacks.”
“When you win, you can afford to be gracious, you can afford to have a little more mercy.”
“The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.”
“You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself.”

Source : Song: That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be, Album: Carly Simon, 1971
“Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.”
“... love was an illusion which civilization had produced to give a little order to the frequency of the sex act.”

Source : Christer Kihlman (1990). “The blue mother”
“There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast”

Source : Paul Scott Mowrer (1945). “The House of Europe”

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