"Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn."

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"Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn."

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"Don't invest everything in another man's calling."

"Fix your gazes on the invisible."

"You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority."

"A busy life is not necessarily an effective life."

"There are so many things and people craving your attention such that you could so easily forget that you have a purpose to fulfill within a specified time on the earth."

"You need intensity to be quick."

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"In the world, the disappointed or annoyed person seeks revenge."

"Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event?"

"To be focused on acquiring material things is to forfeit blessings associated with eternal reward."

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"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

"Sorrowers tend to avoid what they are most fond of and try to give vent to their grief."

"The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty."

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