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All good men are happy when they choose to be their own authors. Those who choose to have others edit their pathways, must live on the edge of another man's sword. – Julie Arabi
Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing. – Author Unknown
Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven. – Tao Te Ching
Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out. – Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us – Orison Swett Marden
For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class. – Hans Konig
Freeze, freeze in the winter, if you really want to appreciate the summer! Walk, walk at the edge of the precipices, if you rightly want to learn the meaning of the safety! Switch the lights off, if you want to see the amazing beauty of the light! – Mehmet Murat ildan
I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for... – Thornton Wilder
I remember we were all horrified to see Grandpa up on the roof with his Superman cape on. 'Get down' yelled Uncle Lou. 'Don't move' screamed Grandma. But Grandpa wouldn't listen. He walked to the edge of the roof and stuck out his arms, like he was going to fly. I forget what happened after that. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the centre. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming-- and a little mad. – Alfred North Whitehead
I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing. – Alice Killer
If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard - let him worry about cutting it. – Fred Allen
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . . write it in the sand near the water's edge. – Napolean Hill
In our system, at about 1130 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office. – Walter Frederick Mondale
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. – Jacob Bronowski, 1976
Life is like a vicious circle.... only the ones on the edge know what it is to face Highs and lows – Siddharth Astir
Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance. – Graham Clarke
Neither a borrower nor a lender be For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. – William Shakespeare
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. – William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3
No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world. – William Shakespeare
On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength. – Billy
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. – Horace Mann

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