Famous quotes containing the words prior, proper and/or planning:
“Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.”
—Matthew Prior (16641721)
“Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”
—Thomas Paine (17371809)
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