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• Man proposes, but God disposes. -- Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471) -- Imitation of Christ, Book i, Chap.
  19...
• And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.
  -- Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471) -- Imitation of Christ, Book i, Chap. 23...
• Two rules we should always have ready,--that there is nothing good or evil save in the will
  and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them....
• Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
  -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part i, Book iii, Chap. i...
• There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
  -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iii, Chap. xx...
• It is much safer to obey than to rule. -- Thomas A. Kempi
• Man proposes, God disposes. -- Thomas a Kempi
• As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,--"Speech is silvern, Silence is golde
  or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity....
• I know what 's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.
  -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part i, Book iii, Chap. ix...