"O Master, make me chaste, but not..." - Quote by Saint Augustine
O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!
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More on Human Nature
“Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.”
“A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.”
“What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.”
More on Procrastination
“Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.”
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
“No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.”