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Plans that are wise and prudent in themselves are rendered vain when the execution of them is carried on negligently and with imprudence.
Guicciardini.
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Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us. Man is made great or little by his own will.
Schiller.
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Hath any wronged thee, be bravely revenged. Slight it, and the work’s begun; forgive it, and ’tis finished. He is below himself that is not above an injury.
Quarles.