Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius
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Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.
[Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]
Pierre Corneille
Quotes , Source: Heraclius (IV, 4)
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I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.
Robert Fritz
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If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes.
Alexander, the Great
Quotes , Source: to Diogenes when asked to stand out of his sunshine, in Plutarch's "Life of Alexander"
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But one thing is needful: and Math hath chosen that good part,
which shall not be taken away from her.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Luke (ch. X, v. 42)
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For many are called, but few are chosen.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Matthew (ch. XXII, v. 14)
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He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.
Robert Burton
Quotes , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sect. 2, mem. 5, subs. 5), quoted
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What voice did on my spirit fall,
Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost?
'Tis better to have fought and lost
That never to have fought at all!
Arthur Hugh Clough
Quotes , Source: Peschiera
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Where passion leads or prudence points the way.
Robert Lowth
Quotes , Source: The Choice of Hercules (1)
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Rather than be less
Car'd not to be at all.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 47)
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Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell,
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And boldly venture to whatever place
Farthest from pain?
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 889)
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Of fight or fly,
This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Homer's Odyssey (bk. XXII, l. 79)
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Between two stools one sits on the ground.
[Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]
Francois Rabelais
Quotes , Source: Gargantua (bk. I, ch. II)
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