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“There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.”

World Wells May Done This World Calling Excuse Well Done Often Is

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.”

May Moments Evil Produce Ocean Vices Quitting Cease Idle Abyss Idleness Cradle Pacific Often Is Stagnant Pacific Ocean

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care of the thoughts and the actions will take care of themselves.”

Mind May Care Action Activity Take Care Often Is Advisable

Book:Zen in English literature and oriental classics

Source: Zen in English literature and oriental classics

“Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.”

May History Habit Discipline Fruit Patient Active Diligence Roman Empire Often Is Valour

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire