It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a set

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. – Aristotle

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Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours. – Marcus Aurelius

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Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first. – Proverb

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Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature. – Marcus Aurelius

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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly. – Emily Bronte

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