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Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay
of hard forethought
of pains
of steadiness
of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.
Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.
In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him
A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.
The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one person and another-between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant-is energy-invisible determination.
Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.
All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.
A successful career has been full of blunders.
To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.
You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
success is due to ability than to zeal.
In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit.
Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.
