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“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
“How many 'coming men' has one known? Where on earth do they all go to?”
“He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.”
“They are able who think they are able.”
“The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.”
“What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are: and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.”
“Nothing great is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom then bear fruit then ...”
“Out of the strain of the Doing Into the peace of the Done.”
“It's them that takes advantage that gets advantage i' this world.”
“I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.”
“There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.”
“It's the whole not the detail that matters.”
“Long is the road from conception to completion.”
“Back of every achievement is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.”
“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.”
“Do what you can with what you have where you are.”
“About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.”
“Give me where to stand and I will move the earth.”
“The only way round is through.”
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears however measured or far away.”
