“As I see it, life furnishes just one panacea, if so much for all the ills and accidents of life: it is work–and more work.”
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“The sanctity of personal honor was the only lesson my father felt necessary to impart to me, and he faithfully saw to my instruction, frequently using my grandfather as his model. All my life, he had implored me not to lie, cheat, or steal; to be fair with friend and stranger alike; to respect my superior and my subordinates; to know my duty and devote myself to its accomplishment without hesitation or complaint. All else, he reasoned, would be satisfactorily managed were I to accept, gratefully, the demands of honor.
'There is a term which has slipped somewhat into disuse,' he remarked late in his life, 'which I always used till the moment I retired everything that highest sense of personal honor implies.' ”
'There is a term which has slipped somewhat into disuse,' he remarked late in his life, 'which I always used till the moment I retired everything that highest sense of personal honor implies.' ”
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“A dog...when he can't get out a gate will scratch and dig and make meaningless gestures, perhaps growling or whatever, to deal with frustration or surprise or fear.”
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“I will make a boisterous pretense at nonsense and my father will leap into the unimportance of it...”
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“Some of Alexander the Great's successors resembled him 'with their purpose customers, their bodyguards, the way they copied the poise of his neck which as tilted slightly to the left, and their loud voices in conversation, but Pyrrhus, and Pyrrhus alone, in arms and action.'”
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“The pursuit of landscaping is a cause of the deranged man. Imperfection is emancipation.”
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“That is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise.
They grow careful.
Perhaps that is wisdom.
It is a very unattractive wisdom.”
They grow careful.
Perhaps that is wisdom.
It is a very unattractive wisdom.”
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“I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant, unexpected encouragements of this kind if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day of his life–that is, tries to make each day reach as nearly as possible the high-water mark of pure, unselfish, useful living.”
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“The wise are cautious but not cunning and sensible but not crafty. Virtue is the measure that applies their excellent understanding to conduct in life.”
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“We must not consider all that we work responsibily to if we would be free from anxiety.”
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“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.”
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“Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things,
and stand firm in that which you are.”
and stand firm in that which you are.”
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“Is not ill-humour in fact our own inner displeasure at our own unworthiness, a feeling of discontent with ourselves, which is always related to envy, which in turn is stirred up by foolish vanity? We see people who are happy and whose happiness is not of our making, and we cannot stand it.”
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“The benefits of the new system are usually invisible, yet the costs hit you in the face.”
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“An Englishman does his usual hobby of fox-hunting, unflinching as war approaches his homeland. Is it virtuous that he should carry on, unaffected? An example of stern peace of mind? No, of course not. He's a coward and an escapist, who doesn't understand that the purpose of fox-hunting is only to keep you strong and manly in preparation for more important tasks. Any hard physical work, and in fact all work, serves to steel our minds for harder things later on—'to do work that counts when the time arises.'
When a man so far confuses ends and means as to think that fox-hunting, or polo, or foot-ball, or whatever else the sport may be, is to be itself taken as the end, instead of as the mere means of preparation to do work that counts when the time arises, when the occasion calls—why, that man had better abandon sport altogether.”
When a man so far confuses ends and means as to think that fox-hunting, or polo, or foot-ball, or whatever else the sport may be, is to be itself taken as the end, instead of as the mere means of preparation to do work that counts when the time arises, when the occasion calls—why, that man had better abandon sport altogether.”
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