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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early
in life.
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early
in life.
Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of read more
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. - The Lonely Crowd.
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but
knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, read more
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but
knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space
and indefinite in duration.
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those
who try to do nothing and read more
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those
who try to do nothing and succeed.
The darkest hour of a man's life is when he sits down to plan how to
get money without earning read more
The darkest hour of a man's life is when he sits down to plan how to
get money without earning it.
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the read more
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
