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Risk - If one as to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If read more
Risk - If one as to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. read more
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.
First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.
In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take read more
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
