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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Every situation-nay, every moment-is of infinite worth; for it is the
representative of a whole eternity.
Every situation-nay, every moment-is of infinite worth; for it is the
representative of a whole eternity.
Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.
Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making read more
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. - All About Ourselves and Other Essays.
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert
integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert
integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,
the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the read more
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.
