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Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,
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If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,
And I will look on both indifferently;
For let the gods so speed me as I love
The name of honor more than I fear death.
Between two stools one sits on the ground.
[Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]
Between two stools one sits on the ground.
[Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]
Which of them shall I take?
Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed,
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Which of them shall I take?
Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed,
If both remain alive. To take the widow
Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril;
And hardly shall I carry out my side,
Her husband being alive.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape read more
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Betwixt the devil and the deep sea.
Betwixt the devil and the deep sea.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Alva Edison.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Alva Edison.
I will not choose what many men desire,
Because I will not jump with common spirits
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I will not choose what many men desire,
Because I will not jump with common spirits
And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.
We make our choices, then our choices make us!
We make our choices, then our choices make us!