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"It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it."
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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"There are limits to self-indulgence none to self-restraint."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty."
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Personal Development
"Turn the actions in achieving your goals into systematically repeated things and make them your routine."
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Personal Development
"It takes discipline to turn illusion into reality."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."
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Personal Development
"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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"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this."
Courage
"Thou hast seen nothing yet."
Nothing
"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."
Power
"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."
Experience
"The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part."
Character
"From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment."
Reading
"There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it."
Humor
"I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences."
Experience
"True valor lies between cowardice and rashness."
Coward
"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."
Design
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