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Quote by Thomas Merton

“Take more time, cover less ground.”

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Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 - December 10, 1968) was an American writer, poet, social critic, and mystic. His works covered a wide range of topics including philosophy, religion, and social justice, and were highly appreciated by readers. more

“The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.”

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“Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts.”

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“The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.”

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Book:Practical Vedanta Philosophy

Source: Practical Vedanta Philosophy

“Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else.”

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Book:The Powers of The Mind

Source: The Powers of The Mind

“Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.”

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Book:The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Source: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

“My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.”

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Book:Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches

Source: Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches

“I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not falter. I know how strongly American civilization now leans on the triumph of the government, and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and sufferings of the Revolution.”

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Author:Sullivan Ballou

“That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.”

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