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- I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Now I understand what exhaustion is. It’s not just a code word for heroin addiction. People don’t teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it’s something I’d never had to handle, because I’d been rejected for so long.
- Felicia Day, The Washington Post, 04-03-12
- It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
- Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
- In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
- It is better to be envied than pitied.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
- Force has no place where there is need of skill.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
- Haste in every business brings failures.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
- Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
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