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It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too read more
It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free
is an obligation.
To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free
is an obligation.
A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.
A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals-that is, goals
that do not inspire them.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals-that is, goals
that do not inspire them.
The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times read more
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was
not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most read more
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.
It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.
The Three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to
himself.
The Three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to
himself.
