Thoroughnesscharacterizes

Thoroughnesscharacterizes
Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.
  

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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.
Much learning does not teach understanding.
All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.
Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.
Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.
Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.
Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.