The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.
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The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find read more
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. - Punica.
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. - Punica.
The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
I wish they would only take me as I am. - Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh.
I wish they would only take me as I am. - Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims.
To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.
To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in read more
Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend.
