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Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would ... be confined to one sing ...
It is day still, you better get busy!
Night will intrude when no one can be active.
Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are a ...
Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged.
But she is early up and out,
To trim the year or strip its bones;
Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capa ...
Weariness
Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.
Duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed
That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf,
Wouldst thou not stir in this.
You are richer for doing things.
The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry an ...
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