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Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Observe your enemies, for they first find your faults.
Observe your enemies, for they first find your faults.
Confessed faults are half-mended.
Confessed faults are half-mended.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. -Jonathan read more
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. -Jonathan Swift.
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. -Zen saying.
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. -Zen saying.
They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being read more
They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.
We confess to little faults only to persuade others that we have no great ones.
We confess to little faults only to persuade others that we have no great ones.
A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to read more
A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.