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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Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.
A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.
Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.
Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.
It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.
Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.
Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.