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Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd,
In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd.
A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd,
In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd.
I care not twopence.
I care not twopence.
It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the read more
It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the first.
They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were
slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins read more
They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were
slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and
goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, and tormented;
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts,
and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
This was the penn'worth of his thought.
This was the penn'worth of his thought.
The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities!
They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn read more
The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities!
They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn
breath upon the planet. (the Devil and Shakespeare.)
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to read more
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather and prunello.
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather and prunello.