"Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. In the past, whenever I had fallen short in almost any undertaking, it was seldom because I had tried and failed. It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all."

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Arthur Gordon Webster

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“The point of departure must always be a vision of the truth. The eye is the route of the soul, and the pencil or brush must sincerely and naïvely reproduce what it sees.”
“Sometimes I will portray the more normal-looking people as the monsters and then the more distorted - "uniquely formed" is the word I like to use, rather than monstrous - as the sympathetic characters in the painting. It's interesting because some people will get it right away, but a common reaction is to be a little off-put by it. And that is the whole idea. If it grabs somebody in a negative way, that's my intention.”

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“I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them.”
“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
“Hit the ball up to the hole... You meet a better class of people up there.”
“If any of you get hernias in this tug-of-war against the Army, I'll pay to get them fixed.”
“Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.”

Source : Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.251
“Injury taught me I need to learn how to face challenges.”

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