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“Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.”

People Ends America Moving Order Effort Attention Succeed Moving Forward Impulse Abandoned Elsewhere Vigorous Precision Undertakings Short Lived Order To Succeed

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“For wisest ends this universal Power Gave appetites, from whose quick impulse life Subsists, by which we only live, all life Insipid else, unactive, unenjoy'd. Hence to this peopled earth, which, that extinct, That flame for propagation, soon would roll A lifeless mass, and vainly cumber heaven.”

Ends Earth Heaven Mass Universal Impulse Flames Appetite Wisest Lifeless Insipid Propagation

Book:The forced marriage, a tragedy. Sketches: or, Essays on various subjects, by Launcelot Temple, Esq

Source: The forced marriage, a tragedy. Sketches: or, Essays on various subjects, by Launcelot Temple, Esq

“When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the drug addict feels when indulging his or her habit. Temporary relief is soon followed by a craving for more. And in just the same way that taking drugs in the end only causes trouble, so, too, does much of what we undertake to fulfill our immediate sensory desires.”

Source: Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium