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Thursday, June 26, 2014

Post #1584

To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits the mark.
—James Ellis
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Post #1553

Lead is heavy, gold is heavier, and platinum, among the metals, is the heaviest of all ; but take the kingdoms of creation at large, that which has the most specific gravity to make earth groan and heaven weep, is a lazy man.
—Elisha L. Magoon

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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Post #1504

The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.
—Christian Nestell Bovee
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Friday, December 27, 2013

Post #1445

Laziness is a good deal like money,—the more a man has of it, the more he seems to want.
—H.W. Shaw
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Monday, July 15, 2013

Post #1296

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little.
—Samuel Johnson
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Post #1176

Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
—William Feather Sr.

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Wednesday, January 09, 2013

Post #1159

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
—Anne Frank

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Tuesday, January 01, 2013

Post #1152

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
—Friedrich Hebbel

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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Post #1110

The day will happen whether or not you get up.
—John Ciardi
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Friday, January 27, 2012

Post #844

Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of doing anything great.
—Henri IV of France
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Friday, October 07, 2011

Post #733

If all that Americans want is security, then they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed, and a roof over their heads.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Friday, April 29, 2011

Post #574

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.
—Jules Renard

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Monday, August 27, 2007

Post #18

If you can read and don't, you're dumb.
—Malcolm Forbes

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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

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