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"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."
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"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
Education
"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."
Family
"Some are weather-wise some are otherwise."
Wisdom
"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."
Integrity
"Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve."
Motivation
"I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand."
Wisdom
"A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail the shoe was lost for want of a shoe the horse was lost for want of a horse the battle was lost for want of the battle the war was lost."
Morality
"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."
Unity
"When in doubt, don't."
Wisdom
"Observe all men, thyself most."
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"Every sexual sin begins with flattery."
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Personal Development
"Be confidently assured that any 'gods' that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them."
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"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
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"There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing."
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"Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be transient and probatory, and withdrawing our thoughts from that of which every hour brings us nearer to the beginning, and of which no length of time will bring us to the end. Mortification is not virtuous in itself, nor has any other use, but that it disengages us from the allurements of sense. In the state of future perfection, to which we all aspire, there will be pleasure without danger, and security without restraint."
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"Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing."
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"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
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"She got up and he saw the skin of her thigh for a moment above the artificial silk, and a prick of sexual desire disturbed him like a sickness. That was what happened to a man in the end: the stuffy room, the wakeful children, the Saturday night movements from the other bed. Was there no escape""anywhere""for anyone? It was worth murdering a world."
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"The devil will do everything to get you disappointed in God."
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"One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God."
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