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Now dost thou resolve to avoid a fault, and within an hour thou behavest thyself as if thou hadst never resolved at all.

What doth care about future events bring thee, save sorrow upon sorrow?

In judging others a man laboureth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboureth to good purpose.

Rather be an hour early than a minute late.

How you do anything is how you do everything.

My sensations as we approached what I supposed might be 'a field of battle' were anything but agreeable.

It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him.

One ever feels his two-ness,--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings

Never had I felt confinement less—I who feel, when I am out of sight of living, growing grass, and out of sound of birds' voices and all rural sounds, that I am not properly alive!

Very, very early in my boyhood I had acquired the habit of going about alone to amuse myself in my own way.

Every thought we think makes it necessary for us to think another thought; consciousness is continually expanding.

The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.

Extreme altruism is no better and no nobler than extreme selfishness; both are mistakes.

Every person naturally wants to become all that he is capable of becoming; this desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature; we cannot help wanting to be all that we can be.

Rest and recreation are also necessary to his physical life.

Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance.

Success in life is becoming what you want to be.

Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry, or fear. Go as fast as you can, but never hurry.

Desire is a manifestation of power.

If I felt that there is to be sole responsibility in the Executive for the America of tomorrow I should shrink from the burden.

A watched pot never boils.

Look before you leap.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

A stitch in time saves nine.