"As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice."

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Source : Isaac Barrow, Thomas Smart Hughes (1831). “Works”, p.247

Isaac Barrow

#Men Quotes #Vices Quotes #Dry Quotes

“By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule regarding the thorough analysis of one's own games, with the years I have come to realize that this provides the foundation for the continuous development of chess mastery.”
“Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than spending six months working eight hours a day, five days a week, in order to earn enough money to be able to come back to a comfortable home in the evening and sit in front of a TV screen and watch the two-dimensional image of some guy talking about a book he has written on a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains.”

Source : Colin Fletcher, Clem L. Rawlins (2002). “The Complete Walker IV”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
“Let me be to my sad self hereafter kind.”

Source : Peter Pouncey (2010). “Rules For Old Men Waiting”, p.20, Random House
“Let it be said to our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we didn't turn our back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.”
“Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.”

Source : Sir Samuel Garth (1800). “The Poetical Works of Sir Sam. Garth, M.D., with the Life of the Author. Cooke's Edition. [With Illustrations.]”, p.76
“I love, and the world is mine!”

Source : Florence Earle Coates, “Songs”
“He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.”
“When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.”

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