Skill to do comes of doing.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Showing posts with label skill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skill. Show all posts
Sunday, August 08, 2021
Friday, July 21, 2017
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Post #2278
He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
—Benjamin Franklin
—Benjamin Franklin
Monday, May 30, 2016
Post #2086
Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Post #1578
If I were a cobbler I would make it my pride
The best of all cobblers to be;
If I were a tinker, no tinker beside
Should mend an old kettle like me.
The best of all cobblers to be;
If I were a tinker, no tinker beside
Should mend an old kettle like me.
Friday, May 02, 2014
Post #1539
The woodman is superior by knowledge of his art rather than by strength ; the pilot guides the swift ship in the dark-blue sea by skill, when it is tempest-tossed ; the charioteer is superior to his rival by his skill.
—Homer
—Homer
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Post #1297
There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.
—François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
—François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Monday, February 18, 2013
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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