#sure

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone. ↗

— Cathy Freeman

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You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true. ↗

— Robert Frost

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Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second. ↗

— Robert Frost

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The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure. ↗

— I. F. Stone

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Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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