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"A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave."
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"People who truly serve God embrace light, they fall in love with light, and they proclaim light, they fight with light."
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"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else."
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"There are limits to self-indulgence none to self-restraint."
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"Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations for sleep is a recreation. Add not therefore sauce to sauce. ... Pastime like wine is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head which hath lain fallow all night with some serious work."
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"The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty."
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"Turn the actions in achieving your goals into systematically repeated things and make them your routine."
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"It takes discipline to turn illusion into reality."
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"Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast."
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"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."
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"Don't let your ego put you in a compromising situation. Don't allow your pride to keep you from seeking the help you need. And don't give in to your fears. Stay focused."
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"When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it."
Communication

"Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge."
Wisdom

"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."
Learning

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
Marriage

"Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones, the difference is only in the price."
Life

"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
Self-Control

"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom."
Simplicity

"If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty."
Relationship

"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him."
Work

"To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals."
Reflection
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