The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
God’s colors all are fast.
One brave deed makes no hero.
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.