flâneur

Sachin kumar Yadav

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  • The tough thing is that consistency can feel like it’s not paying off for long stretches of time. You feel aimless, like you’re going nowhere. You’re not improving as fast as you like. I’m an impatient person, so when I encounter this I always think, shouldn’t I be doing something smarter? But it’s like kicking in a door or breaking a piñata: you have kind of just keep going until something breaks.
    consistency is proficiency - by Ava - bookbear express
  • Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to conten d. Abeunt studia in mores [Studies pass into and influence manners
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  • Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer littl e, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not
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  • Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider
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  • To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament , is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experienc
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  • Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business
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