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The secret of calm cheerfulness is kindliness; no person can be consistently cheerful and calm who does not consistently think kind thoughts.
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My aim is to show that only an inappreciable fraction of our ordered and sustained efforts is given to the business of actual living, as distinguished from the preliminaries to living.
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When we have been engaged in the preliminaries to living for about fifty-five years, we begin to think about slacking off.
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The beginning of wise living lies in the control of the brain by the will; so that the brain may act according to the precepts which the brain itself gives.
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A person is idle because his thoughts dwell habitually on the instant pleasures of idleness.
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The brain can be disciplined by learning the habit of obedience.
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The brain can be trained, as the hand and eye can be trained; it can be made as obedient as a sporting dog, and by similar methods.
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There is no royal road to the control of the brain.
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A man's powers ought not to be monopolised by his ordinary day's work.
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The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.
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In the realm of time there is no aristocracy of wealth, and no aristocracy of intellect.
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The supply of time, though gloriously regular, is cruelly restricted.
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If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions; if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin.
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The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career.
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if your ordinary day's work is thus exhausting, then the balance of your life is wrong and must be adjusted