Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
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Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!
This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.
Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time
To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done.
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
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