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“To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.”

Way Doubt Cutting Materials Achievement Reflection Fellows Busy Affair Relief Throat Razors

Book:The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)

Source: The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)

“The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.”

Ifs Steps Virtue Doubt Comfort Tasks Affair No Doubt Carrie Ritual Usual Vulgar Comprehension Dreary Camels Pompous Dullness

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“If you know with a complete absence of doubt that what you are doing is consistent with your own purpose and that you are involved in accomplishing a great affair, then you are at peace with yourself and in harmony with your own heroic mission.”

Ifs Knows Purpose Doubt Involved Harmony Affair Missions Absence Consistent Heroic

Book:Wisdom of the Ages: A Modern Master Brings Eternal Truths into Everyday Life

Source: Wisdom of the Ages: A Modern Master Brings Eternal Truths into Everyday Life

“For out of doubt In these affairs 'tis each man's will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.”

Men Giving Doubt Affair Limbs

Book:The Way Things Are

Source: The Way Things Are

“General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.”

Men Should Wells Doubt Judging Ordinary Capacity Affair Ignorant No Doubt Old Man Uneducated Public Affairs

Author:James K. Polk

“In knowledge of human affairs, we should never allow our minds to be enslaved by others by subjecting ourselves to their whims. We must maintain freedom of thought, and never accept anything of purely human authority into our heads. When we are presented with a diversity of opinions, we must choose, if we can; if we cannot, we must remain in doubt.”

Ifs Should Mind Humans Accepting Opinion Doubt Authority Diversity Affair Freedom Of Thought Whim

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable