"Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep."

Effort, Decency, Sleep, State, Succeed

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"Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep."

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"You can do nothing you put your heart into it."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Effort, Heart, Willpower, Truth

"Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Effort, Universe

"Work while you have strength."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Work with great zeal."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"God has a plan and guess what? The plan is to stop waiting for him to do everything for you. The person you want in your life is not a sign. Not a clue. Not a wish. Not a prayer. Not a tarot card or a matter of timing. It is work. It is devotion, and like any dream if you want it then God will open doors for you to obtain it. You just have to stop setting the bar so low that everything below is a sign from God and everything above is asking too much."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"Good is not good, where better is expected."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Effort, Expectation, Quality, Improvement, Motivational

"Whatever you do, put all your soul, your spirit and your strength into it."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Effort, Soul, Spirit, Strength

"Without strength, can we work to create wealth?"

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"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Effort, Pleasure

"I find it an effort to keep up appearances."

Dusty Springfield, British Musician

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"It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom."

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"You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave."

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"The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right."

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"Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin."

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"Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses."

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"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another."

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"You can do nothing you put your heart into it."

"Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."

"Work while you have strength."

"Work with great zeal."

"Good is not good, where better is expected."

"Whatever you do, put all your soul, your spirit and your strength into it."

"Without strength, can we work to create wealth?"

"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."

"I find it an effort to keep up appearances."

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"For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook."

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"Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors."

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"The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress."

"You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave."

"The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right."

"Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin."

"Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses."

"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another."