Moral maxims are surprisingly ...

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
 Alexander Pushkin

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Quotes from the same author

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)
 Alexander Pushkin
Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.
 Alexander Pushkin
Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
 Alexander Pushkin
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
 Alexander Pushkin
'Tis time, my friend, 'tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking, Fragments of being, while together you and I, Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.
 Alexander Pushkin