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I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a g

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say “no” to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.” – Stephen Covey

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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Serving one’s own passions is the greatest slavery. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia

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Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud. – J. Petit-Senn

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