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Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
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When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
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Do something everyday for no other reason than 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.
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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
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