“The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds”
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“The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds”
“To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure”
“The sweetest of all sounds is praise”
“The price of greatness is responsibility”
“To each saint his candle”
“God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars”
“I love those who yearn for the impossible”
“We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together”
“The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it”
“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts”
“We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.”
“Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.”
“I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest”
“There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition”
“A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.”