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Sunday, December 08, 2024

Post #3259

Yonder ragged cliff Has thousand faces in a thousand hours.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sunday, February 21, 2021

Post #3060

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
—Dr. Samuel Johnson

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Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Post #2872

The great world spins forever down the ringing grooves of change.
—Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Friday, June 23, 2017

Post #2365

We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions; but we love a proselyte.
—Sir Arthur Helps
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Friday, February 26, 2016

Post #2020

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for vicissitudes.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Friday, February 14, 2014

Post #1480

In human life there is a constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays and all things are daily changing.
—Plutarch
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Post #1317

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
—Oscar Wilde

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Friday, January 18, 2013

Post #1167

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do-it-yourself project.
—Denis Waitley

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Post #1141

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
—Charles Caleb Colton

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Wednesday, September 05, 2012

Post #1051

Life is what happens to us while we make other plans.
—Allen Saunders
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Sunday, May 13, 2012

Post #950

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
—Heraclitus
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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Post #926

Turbulence is a life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
—Ramsey Clark
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Friday, December 09, 2011

Post #795

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
—Albert Schweitzer

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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Post #725

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.
—Robert Louis Stevenson
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Sunday, September 25, 2011

Post #721

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
—Leon Trotsky

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Friday, July 29, 2011

Post #664

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Thursday, May 05, 2011

Post #580

Change must be measured from a known base line.
—Evan Shute
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Monday, April 25, 2011

Post #570

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.
—Turkish proverb
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Saturday, April 16, 2011

Post #561

It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
—Christian Bovee
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Sunday, April 03, 2011

Post #548

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
—Ellen Glasgow

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The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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