"If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail."

-- Jesse Jackson

#Words Of Wisdom Quotes #Trying Quotes #May Quotes

“We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel -- and to dare, to do, and to suffer.”

Source : Mark Hopkins (1847). “Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses”, p.235
“I don't think the idea of requiring these to be only sold to people who have already own the bonds, in other words, this naked position that the Germans have recently put into their financial regulation and has been discussed here. I don't think that makes any sense.”
“Slander is the solace of malignity.”
“The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.”

Source : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey. Address at the Centenary Dinner of University College, Toronto, October 16, 1953, 1959.
“I have nothing against people getting their band back together, but the artists I love marked a time in my life, and to merge that time with now can be personally depressing.”
“The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.”
“Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.”
“Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams; And sorrow tracketh wrong, As echo follows song.”

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