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 | "Do today"s duty, fight today"s temptation; do not weaken and
distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could
not understand if you saw them." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human
being." | |
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Found in the topic Cruel.
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| "If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you
want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people
think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil
everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of
everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose." | |
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Found in the topic Character.
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| "Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things,
not dream them, all day long: And so make life, death, and that vast
forever One grand sweet song." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "There are two freedoms ? the false where a man is free to do what he
likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought." | |
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Found in the topic Freedom.
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| "Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to
do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work,
and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, self-control,
diligence, strength of will, content, and a hundred other virtues which
the idle never know." | |
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Found in the topic Work.
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| "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of
life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be
enthusiastic about." | |
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Found in the topic Comfort.
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