Nothing so wonderfully

Nothing so wonderfully
Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.
  

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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.
Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.
When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.
If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.
Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.
You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.