"Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered."

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Source : William Dean Howells (2015). “Of Literature”, p.598, Simon and Schuster

William Dean Howells

#Truth Quotes #Greatness Quotes #Long Quotes

“The experiments made on the mutual electrical relations of bodies have taught us that they can be divided into two classes: electropositive and electronegative. The simple bodies which belong to the first class, as well as their oxides, always take up positive electricity when they meet simple bodies or oxides belonging to the second class; and the oxides of the first class always behave with the oxides of the other like salifiable bases with acids.”
“Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. There is a phrase I learned in college called, 'having a healthy disregard for the impossible.' That is a really good phrase. You should try to do things that most people would not do.”
“So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.”
“There are people inside the administration that think it is their job to save America from the President. That is not their job. Their job is to inject this President into America so that he can explain his views properly and his policies so that we can transform America and drain the swamp and make the system fairer for the middle and lower income people.”
“I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.”
“Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.”

Source : Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.372, Sheridan House, Inc.
“claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of creating flat land for development To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.”
“In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure ...”

Source : Amy Vanderbilt (1963). “Amy Vanderbilt's New Complete Book of Etiquette: The Guide to Gracious Living”

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