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Strive, O my soul, to maintain and keep alive impressions, first, of the constant presence of a holy, omniscient, omnipotent, but infinitely merciful and gracious God, of Christ our almighty shepherd, of the Holy Spirit, of the evil one, and the invisible world in general.

—William Wilberforce

Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs.

—Seneca

He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?

—Arthur Schopenhauer

“You have to keep at it with a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.”

Charlie Munger

“Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.”

— Charlie Munger

“If you want to succeed in investments, start early and try hard and keep doing it. All success comes that way, by and large.”

— Charlie Munger

God by His Spirit must change the hearts of the people, if they are to walk in His ways, and keep His ordinances and statutes. The Spirit of the Lord alone works the true, spiritual, and moral life.

—Herman Bavinck

“The only way to keep chaff out of the child’s little measure is to fill it brimful with good wheat. Oh that the Spirit of God may help us to do this!”

Charles Spurgeon

Don’t honor the wealthy, don’t envy them; keep your distance from them and pity them.

—Leo Tolstoy

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

—Henry Ford

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

—Franz Kafka

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

—George Orwell

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

—Charles Dickens

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

—Albert Einstein

Strive, O my soul, to maintain and keep alive impressions, first, of the constant presence of a holy, omniscient, omnipotent, but infinitely merciful and gracious God, of Christ our almighty shepherd, of the Holy Spirit, of the evil one, and the invisible world in general.

—William Wilberforce

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.

—Charles Dickens

“So far also we know that one way by which the law is kept written upon a Christian’s heart is this,— a sense of God’s presence.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Instead of saying, I would keep away from the assembly of God’s people if I could, the newborn nature wishes like David to dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.

—Laozi

Can you coax your mind from its wandering and keep to the original oneness?

—Laozi

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.

—Henry David Thoreau

“Married life is not all sugar,

but grace in the heart will keep away most of the sours.”

— Charles Spurgeon

The door to the soul, like the door to the house, must be kept closed. A cold wind blows into the door when it’s open, brings in all kinds of dirt and bad people.

—Taras Shevchenko

It is necessary to keep one’s compass in one’s eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

—Michelangelo

You have nothing to fear from the machinations of those people who belong to a deceitful and vain world. They can’t reach a beautiful bird soaring in the sky. What’s her name? Is it truth? Love? Eternity? Yes, eternity. The bustling world can’t keep up with eternity, it better see it doesn’t lose itself!

—Hryhorii Skovoroda

Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

—Franz Kafka

A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

—Aldous Huxley

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

—Marcus Aurelius

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

—Ernest Hemingway