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All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.

Cecil Frances Alexander (1818-1895) Irish hymn-writer and poet [nee Humphreys]
“All Things Bright and Beautiful”, l. 1-4

To know when to retreat; and to dare to do it.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman
(Attributed)
When asked the best attribute of a great general. Quoted in Sir William Fraser, Words on Wellington (1889).

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Anglo-Irish statesman, orator, philosopher
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

If we would all ov us take kare ov our own souls, and let our nabors alone, thare would be less time lost, and more souls saved.

[If we would all of us take care of our own souls, and let our neighbors alone, there would be less time lost and more souls saved.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots to make earth.

Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) American poet
“Shine, Perishing Republic” (1939)