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Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

William Feather

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If you would live healthy, be old early.

Danish proverb

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Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.

B. F. Skinner

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The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

Seneca

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Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Frank oh, say can you see, buy the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming. who's bright strips and broad stars, in the parelious night, o'er the rampart's we watched, as the da da, da, da, da, da, and the rocket's red glare, lots of bombs in the air, gave proof to the night, that we still had a flag, oh say does that spangle banner wave, over all-l-l-l-l that's free, over the home, of the land, and the land of the free

Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad

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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.

Sri da Avabhas

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Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now.

P Barnum

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It gets late early out there.

Lawrence Peter Berra

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It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

Psalm 1272 Bible

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I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two-are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked.

Harold Bloom

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The best of men cannot suspend their fate The good die early, and the bad die late.

Daniel Defoe

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I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.

Christa McAuliffe

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I came into the world either too early or too late at present, I am good for nothing.

Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.

Earl Nightingale

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Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Anthony Powell

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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

Julius Rosenwald

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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Anthony Trollope

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The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

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Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.

Anonymous

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

Lydia Sigourney

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