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It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has read more
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough,
but in getting out read more
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough,
but in getting out after you are in.
Good writing is clear thinking made visible.
Good writing is clear thinking made visible.
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but
knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, read more
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but
knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space
and indefinite in duration.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Expenditure rises to meet income.
Expenditure rises to meet income.
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten
years, plant trees; if read more
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten
years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the
consequence, and pains to be coveted that read more
I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the
consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater
pleasures.
Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.
Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.
