I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
James Russell LowellRead
Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
Interpretation
Good luck often comes to those who act with integrity, energy, and a strong sense of duty.
James Russell Lowell suggests that luck is not a mere coincidence but is closely tied to oneβs character and actions. People who are upright, energetic, and conscientious tend to create opportunities and positive outcomes for themselves; thus, luck appears to favor those who work diligently and ethically.
In practice
During a motivational speech to emphasize the importance of hard work.
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.
Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.
The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
I have no more campaigns to run... I know because I won both of them.
When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.
Never be afraid to ask for too much when selling or offer too little when buying.
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