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Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without read more
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was read more
Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.
Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best read more
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, read more
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new read more
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
The future is not a gift -- it is an achievement.
The future is not a gift -- it is an achievement.
