My father was slower, but he ...

My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.
My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.
 Lincoln Steffens

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Who sows virtue reaps honor.
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory.
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 Steven Pressfield
See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body.
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My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.
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