What's done we partly may compute,
But know not what's resisted.

What's done we partly may compute,
But know not what's resisted.

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great read more

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.

Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
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Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate,
Nothing to him falls early or too late.
Our acts, our angles are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

Let us do or die.

Let us do or die.

Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.

Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the read more

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we read more

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.