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- There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.
- J. W. Alexander
- Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?
- Alfred A. Montapert
- Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
- As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.
- A. J. Toynbee
- Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.
- Tyron Edwards
- Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.
- Madame Guizot
- We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
- Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
- A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.
- South
- If we have need of a strong will in order to do good, it is still more necessary for us in order not to do evil.
- Mole
- It is never too late with us, so long as we are aware of our faults and bear them impatiently.
- Jacobi
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