"When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate for you if you feel like doing it; but, if you do not feel like it, that is no reason for not doing it."

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Source : Washington Gladden (1876). “Being a Christian: what it Means and how to Begin”, p.66

Washington Gladden

#Done Quotes #Reason Quotes #Duty Quotes

“Nothing lasts forever”
“A library is infinity under a roof.”
“Whatever you've learned becomes truly useful to you only once it has become second nature.”
“There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of the proposition will not hold true.--We are so made, that from the common gratifications of our appetites, and the impressions of a thousand objects, we snatch the one, like a transient gleam, without being suffered to taste the other.”
“Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?”
“Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.”
“When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what youre doing is not any kind of public show, until youre ready for it.”
“I have carried my Jamaican Flag with pride around the world to share my culture and experience with others because I seek Balance which is what I believe life is all about.”

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