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• That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does i
  This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it....
• I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes.
  The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims....
• He dies twice who perishes by his own hand. Latin Proverb
• As is the bud bit with an envious worm Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Romeo and Juliet -- Act i, Sc. 1...
• Ned: Well, hey, it's Homer. Good to see you, neigh-- [Homer pushes him and takes his bell] Home
  Get lost! [rings the bell] Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye!...
• He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act i, Sc. 2...
• Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice.
  His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff...
• He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
  -- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lo...
• Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else - and usually it's reading his own handwriting.
  -- G. Norman Collie...