James Ussher famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
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If good people would make their goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many would they win to the good cause.
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If good people would but make goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many they would win to the good cause.
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We have assurance that we shall be heard in what we pray, because we pray to that God that heareth prayer, and is the rewarder of all that come unto Him; and in His name, to whom God denieth nothing; and, therefore, howsoever we are not always answered at the present, or in the same kind that we desire, yet, sooner or later, we are sure to receive even above that we are able to ask or think, if we continue to sue unto Him according to His will.
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Lust is the base of most physical ills, and like a tapeworm in the system, it feeds on our best energies and vitality.
-- James Ussher
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
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Delay not to seize the hour!
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The era of procrastination...is coming to a close...we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement
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Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time
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I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students...
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He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.
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You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.
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To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.
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Your success in life and work will be determined by the kinds of habits that you develop over time. The habit of setting priorities, overcoming procrastination, and getting on with your most important task is a mental and physical skill. As such, this habit is learnable through practice and repetition, over and over again, until it locks into your subsconscious mind and becomes a permanent part of your behaviour.
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In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.
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