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“Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.”

Moments Opportunity Arise Occasions Improving Defining Defining Moments

Author:Dick Pound

“Holding occasion by the hand, Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower, Waiving what none can understand, I make mine hour.”

Hands Opportunity Hours Nice Mines Flower Occasions Weed

Author:John Vance Cheney

“Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.”

Past Opportunity Behinds Fortune Occasions Slips

Book:The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Abraham Cowley

Source: The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Abraham Cowley

“Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.”

Firsts Persons Opportunity Belief Groups Civilization Cruelty Occasions Betray Colonialism Unconcerned

Author:Simone Weil

“Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.”

Opportunity Waiting Duty Occasions Zeal

Author:John Milton

“The opportunity should not be lost, which is afforded by the occasion, for illustrating and enforcing the thought that the universe, its creation, its arrangement, and all of its developing processes, are not due to human planning or oversight, but to the infinite wisdom and power of God.”

Should Humans Universe Opportunity Lost Process Creation Infinite Dues Planning Occasions Developing Arrangements Power Of God Oversight Illustrating

Author:Andrew S. Draper

“Wealth and riches, that is, an estate above what sufficeth our real occasions and necessities, is in no other sense a 'blessing' than as it is an opportunity put into our hands, by the providence of God, of doing more good.”

Real Hands Opportunity Wealth Blessing Environmental Riches Occasions Providence Estates Stewardship

Book:The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...

Source: The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...