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William James
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

William James
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way.

William James
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.

William James
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.

William James
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

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Plato
There is no such thing as a lover's oath.

Aristotle
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

John Locke
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

Benjamin Franklin
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Thales
The past is certain, the future obscure.

Gaius Petronius
One good turn deserves another.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Only sick music makes money today.

Oscar Wilde
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Jonathan Swift
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

Benjamin Franklin
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Unknown
Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.

Oliver Cromwell
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

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