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The busiest man needs no more hours of rest than the idler.
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We have evidently tapped a level of new energy, masked until then by the fatigue-obstacle usually obeyed.
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We live subject to arrest by degrees of fatigue which we have come only from habit to obey.
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The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.
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The spectacle of effort is what awakens and sustains our own effort.
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The normal opener of deeper and deeper levels of energy is the will.
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Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.