“The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things”
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“The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things”
“The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle”
“Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided”
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common”
“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions”
“To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.”
“The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might.”
“Ideas are, in truth, force.”
“An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.”