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Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
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“Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.”

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King James Bible — Proverbs 16:3
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1611
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King James Version translation committees · from Biblical Hebrew / Aramaic / Koine Greek
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Meaning of “Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy…”

The proverb joins committed action with an ordered mind, treating purpose as something expressed through work.

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Proverbs 16:3 in the King James Version.

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Achievement is pictured as beginning with less glamorous inward work—self-command, small duties and repeated effort—before larger results become possible.

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If you would make anything a habit, do it.
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“If you would make anything a habit, do it.”

Epictetus · Discourses of Epictetus · c. 125
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Habit formation is reduced to repeated action: the behavior itself is what trains the pattern.

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Discourses of Epictetus, Book II, Chapter XVIII, “How we should struggle against appearances,” George Long translation; 1877 George Bell & Sons witness on Wikisource, cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #10661. This short catalog record is an excerpt of Long’s longer clause “Generally then if you would make any thing a habit, do it”; this collection lightly normalizes “any thing” to “anything.”

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