Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.
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And first Satan's endeavours have ever been, and they cease not yet to instill a belief in the minde of man, There is no God at all. . . . that the necessity of his entity dependeth upon ours, and is but a Politicall Chymera. . . . Where he succeeds not thus high, he labours to introduce a secondary and deductive Atheisme; that although, men concede there is a God, yet . . . that he intendeth only the care of the species or common natures, but letteth loose the guard of individuals, and single existencies therein: That he looks not below the Moon, but hath designed the regiment of sublunary affairs unto inferiour deputations. To promote which apprehensions or empuzzell their due conceptions, he casteth in the notions of fate, destiny, fortune, chance and necessity. . . . Whereby extinguishing in mindes the compensation of vertue and vice, the hope and fear of heaven or hell; they comply in their actions unto the drift of his delusions. . . .
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A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
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Extreme patience and persistence are required, Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed...
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The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
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For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
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Gone the dear chatterer; Death succeeds Atimetus.
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Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
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For every living creature that succeeds in getting a footing in life there are thousands or millions that perish. There is an enormous random scattering for every seed that comes to life. This does not remind us of intelligent human design. 'If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence.'
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For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
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Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.
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There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properly be styled T...
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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.
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A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
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Nothing succeeds like success.
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A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth.
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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
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Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
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A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
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The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby.
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He who undertakes too much seldom succeeds.
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Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.
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A man with a new idea is a crank -- until the idea succeeds.
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No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
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A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds
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At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
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The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
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