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Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Post #1697

Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it.
—Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

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Monday, March 17, 2014

Post #1501

A person gains more by obliging his inferior, than by disdaining him.
—Robert South

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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Post #1285

A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.
—Sir Richard Steele

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Monday, July 09, 2012

Post #999

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.
—William Lyon Phelps
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Saturday, June 04, 2011

Post #609

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.
—Ayn Rand
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Monday, May 17, 2010

Post #227

Never be haughty to the humble.  Never be humble to the haughty.
—Jefferson Davis
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Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Post #187

I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistake I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there.  Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
—Jackie Robinson

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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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