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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in read more
The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.
The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze read more
The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze that rustles the trees rustles him too.
The most complex things are the simplest.
The most complex things are the simplest.
Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.
Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he read more
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us read more
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down read more
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.