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Genius . . . means transcendent capacity of taking trouble.
Source: 'Life of...
He has no resolution, he shrinks from pain or labour in any of its shapes. His very attitude bespeaks this: he never...
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he...
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
Source: Critical and...
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing...
Good breeding. . . differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather...
If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say......
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
Source:...
If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and...
For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
Source: In...
He that can work is born to be king of something.
Source: In
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more...
For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that. . . is...
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on...
Great men are commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are...
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in...
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Humor is the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Little other than a redtape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!
Source: Frederick the...