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“A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to accomplish this, it is necessary that their minds be held aloof from the babblement and discussions of the hour, that they may accustom themselves to take interest in the words and deeds of the greatest men, and so make themselves able and worthy to shape a larger and nobler future; but if their hours of leisure are spent over journals and reviews, they will, in later years, become the helpless victims of the newspaper habit.”

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.”

Justice Acting Practice Habit Deeds

Author:Pythagoras

“There are things about quitting the smoking habit for which nobody prepares you. Did I have any idea that I would indulge in long, drooling-nay, dribbling-lascivious dreams in which I was still wreathed in fragrant blue fumes? I would wake with the complete and guilty conviction that I had sinned in word and deed while I was asleep.”

Long Stills Ideas Dream Habit Blue Conviction Deeds Quitting Guilty Smoking Indulge Indulge In Drooling

Book:And Yet...: Essays

Source: And Yet...: Essays

“The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.”

Moments Hate Influence Habit Honor Deeds Excuse Hated Merit Present Moment Sentiments Reverence Ancestor Treacherous

Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others sleep, pray while others play. There will be no place for loose or lazy habits in word or thought, deed or dress. He will observe a soldierly discipline, diet and deportment, so that he may wage a good warfare.”

Men May Play Sleep Study He Man Praying Habit Discipline Waste Dresses Deeds Diets Lazy Wasting Time Warfare Caliber

Author:J. Oswald Sanders

“Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.”

Past Passion Evil Memories Enemy Figures Pride Habit Conscience Deeds Pursue Selfishness Malice

Author:George A. Smith

“We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself.”

Feels Persons Soul Past Given Loss Secret Identity Habit Photographer Oneself Deeds Stealing Primitive Our Past Embarrassing Revealing Private Things

Author:Dave Eggers

“Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.”

Wells Kindness Emotional Habit Deeds Well Being Generosity Good Deeds Cultivating Helpfulness Emotional Well Being

Book:One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity

Source: One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity