In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
Quote by Francis Thompson
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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
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- Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
- Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.
- They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
- Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
- A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.
- Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
- By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
- Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.
- Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
- I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.