“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit”
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“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit”
“Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.”
“Experience is not enough in itself - it has to be weighed, ordered and digested, and we have to draw the right conclusions from it”
“Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction”
“There would be no great men if there were no little ones ”
“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”
“Libraries are not made, they grow”
“Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done”
“The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.””
“If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter”
“On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. ”
“There are no shortcuts in evolution”
“Progress is the law of life, man is not man as yet”
“We have to be creative and think of ways to make the airport more than just an airport. We need to think of ways to make it an economic-development hub”
“The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.”
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to who”
“Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.”
“It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite”
“A great man is one that can develop convictions in solitude and carry them out in a crowd.”
“Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man”