“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
“You took the best, so why not take the rest?”
— James Baldwin, book Another Country
Source: Another Country
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“Who loves you most? Who loves you best? Who thinks of you when others rest?”
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“Take what you can use and let the rest go by.”
Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year, st. 10.
Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Context: Shall we that in the Cov'nant swore,
Each man of us to run before
Another, still in Reformation,
Give dogs and bears a dispensation?
How will Dissenting Brethren relish it?
What will malignants say? videlicet,
That each man Swore to do his best,
To damn and perjure all the rest!
And bid the Devil take the hin'most,
Which at this race is like to win most.
“A change of work is the best rest.”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The Sign of the Four
Source: The Sign of Four