Quote #21494
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
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Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows...
Quote #8045
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
Quote #33596
To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of...
Quote #17444
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may...
Quote #4278
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can...
Quote #22727
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the...
Quote #2651
Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs...
Quote #28116
He is great enough that is his own master.
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A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.