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A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, read more
When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.
A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus
keeps his height, even if he read more
A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus
keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.
[Lat., Parvus pumilio, licet in monte constiterit; colossus
magnitudinem suam servabit, etiam si steterit in puteo.]
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a read more
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
