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If you count all your assets you always show a profit.
If you count all your assets you always show a profit.
I add this also, that natural ability without education has
oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education read more
I add this also, that natural ability without education has
oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without
natural ability.
[Lat., Etiam illud adjungo, saepius ad laudem atque virtutem
naturam sine doctrina, quam sine natura valisse doctrinam.]
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the read more
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is read more
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, read more
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.
If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.
We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt
We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt
He could raise scruples dark and nice,
And after solve 'em in a trice;
As if Divinity read more
He could raise scruples dark and nice,
And after solve 'em in a trice;
As if Divinity had catch'd
The itch, on purpose to be scratched.
