“Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.”
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“Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.”
“A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.”
“Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self”
“Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties”
“Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us”
“What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?”
“We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.”
“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”
“A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.”
“It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.”