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Frank Herbert1 quote
There's no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves. — Frank Herbert · 1985Heraclitus1 quote
It is not better for men to get everything they want. Disease makes health pleasant and good, as hunger does being full, and weariness rest. — HeraclitusPtahhotep1 quote
One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household. — Ptahhotep · 2375 BCWalt Whitman1 quote
O to be self-balanced for contingencies,
To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do. — Walt Whitman · 1867