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"If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious." »Mignon McLaughlin
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"We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another." »Goethe
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"Keep thy heart afar from sorrow, and be not anxious about the trouble which is not yet come." »Firdausi
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"Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security." »Edmund Burke
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"It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave." »Homer
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"The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions." »Plato
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"We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood." »C. C. Colton
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"Worldly fame and pleasure are destructive to the virtue of the mind; anxious thoughts and apprehensions are injurious to the health of the body." »Chinese
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"Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected." »Lord Bertrand Russell
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"We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess." »Mark Twain
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"Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success." »Brian Adams
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"In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it." »Albert Einstein
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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more." »Winston Churchill
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"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour." »Helen Keller
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