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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
-James Allen
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The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men
Gang aft agley.
-Robert Burns, "To A Mouse"
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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.
-J. G. Gallimore
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Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
-George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (Javelins of the Wise)
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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one have not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. With good intentions, hell proverbially is paved.
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-William James, Lectures 1892, printed 1899
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'He means well' is useless unless he does well.
-Plautus
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Hell is paved with good intentions.
-John Ray, English Proverbs
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Hell is full of good intentions or desires.
-St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
-Ben Stein
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Books about Intention
