Weigh well what your shoulders can and cannot bear. - Horace

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It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

Horace

Weigh well what your shoulders can and cannot bear.

Bear, Bears, Shoulders, Weigh, Wells

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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity

Adversity, Blood, Courage, Life, Live, Splendor

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Beautiful, Fear, Point, View, Views

A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.

Cage, Cages, Let, Whistled, Wisdom, Wise

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

Art, Liar, Liars, Like, Lying, Writes

Never despair. [Nil desperandum. ]

Despair, Desperandum, Nil

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Mason Jennings

Meditation is the one thing I do every day - meditate, pray. I do reading in the morning and try to center myself. I play music every day because that is very centering.

Morning, Play, Pray, Reading, Thing

George Bernard Shaw

Faces, Force, May, Mean, Shapely, Worn

T. Boone Pickens

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Great things come from out luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis.

Communication, Details, Ideas, Things, Two, Writing

Susan Sontag

As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible.

Different, Incorrigible, Make, Needs, Numb, Weakness

Nipsey Russell

When you a 'has-been', just think of where you HAS-BEEN.

Has Beens, Think, Thinking