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“In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.”

Way Life May Play Skills Cards Live Life

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.”

Life Poor Our Lives Skills Notes Tone Strings Shallow Symphony Great Music Harps

Book:Songs, Legends and Ballads

Source: Songs, Legends and Ballads

“Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.”

Life Life Is Turns Games Chance Air Skills Complicated Devices Defeated Liable Descent Thistles

Book:Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot

Source: Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot

“How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else!”

People Ifs Life Would Be Interesting Skills Interesting Life

Book:Prose Fancies

Source: Prose Fancies

“I don't know in my long life that I ever worked with anybody that has quite the combination of policy knowledge and concern, political skills, of a personal touch with people, and a sense of innate fairness that inspires confidence.”

People Knows Life Long Political Policy Inspire Confidence Skills Concern Combination Fairness Innate Long Life Personal Touch

Author:William J. Clinton