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The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was
To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.
To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
 All Nature is but art unknown to thee;
 All chance direction, which thou canst not see;
  All read more 
 All Nature is but art unknown to thee;
 All chance direction, which thou canst not see;
  All discord, harmony not understood;
   All partial evil, universal good;
    And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,
     One truth is clear, Whatever is is right. 
 But 'twas a maxim he had often tried,
 That right was right, and there he would abide.  
 But 'twas a maxim he had often tried,
 That right was right, and there he would abide. 
 For the ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the 
universal good; and when one's acting in read more 
 For the ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the 
universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has 
this tendency he has a right thus to act.
   - Francis Hutcheson, 
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
 For right is right, since God is God,
 And right the day must win;
  To doubt would read more 
 For right is right, since God is God,
 And right the day must win;
  To doubt would be disloyalty,
   To falter would be sin.