“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
Source: 1890s, The Principles of Psychology (1890), Ch. 4
“There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.”
Source: The Five Orange Pips
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Variant: So precious life is! Even to the old the hours are as a miser’s coins!
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