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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
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But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.
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Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?
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Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
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It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 32 -
It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.
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Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
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No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
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No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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The demand for certainty is a sign of weakness, and if we persist in it induces paralysis.
Mark Rutherford's Deliverance (1885) p. 206 -
The demand for certainty is a sign of weakness, and if we persist in it, induces paralysis.
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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
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We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
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We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
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