“The Evitable Conflict”, p. 189
Source: I, Robot (1950)
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
To Carl Stumpf (1 January 1886)
1920s, The Letters of William James (1920)
Variant: Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
“There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange.”
Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…
Argument on the murder of Captain White (1830)
James Hogg book The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2001) p. 193.
“When power is gone the memory of power lingers.”
Guy Gavriel Kay book Tigana
Part 1 “A Blade in the Soul”, Chapter 1 (p. 9)
Tigana (1990)
“The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
“A Sonnet is a moment's monument,—
Memorial from the Soul's eternity
To one dead deathless hour.”
Dante Gabriel Rossetti The House of Life
Introductory Sonnet.
The House of Life (1870—1881)
