"Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light O'er the glad waves, like a child of the sun, See the tall vessel goes gallantly on."

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Source : Thomas Kibble Hervey (1829). “The poetical sketch-book, including a 3rd ed. of Australia”, p.8

Thomas Kibble Hervey

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“If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.”

Source : Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”
“It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.”
“We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.”

Source : Russell Shorto (2008). “Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason”, p.151, Vintage
“No one has been able to define or synthesize that precarious, splendid, and perhaps untidy instant when the creative process begins. This is what the uniqueness of the artist is all about. The transcendent right of the artist is the right to create even though he may not always know what he is doing.”
“Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless.”
“The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...”
“The scientist has to take 95 per cent of his subject on trust. He has to because he can't possibly do all the experiments, therefore he has to take on trust the experiments all his colleagues and predecessors have done. Whereas a mathematician doesn't have to take anything on trust. Any theorem that's proved, he doesn't believe it, really, until he goes through the proof himself, and therefore he knows his whole subject from scratch. He's absolutely 100 per cent certain of it. And that gives him an extraordinary conviction of certainty, and an arrogance that scientists don't have.”
“My mother helped me to get past that. She was always there for me, until she dies. I remember she told me once, about big hearts and small hearts, and that not everyone could be blessed with a big one that had room to care for a lot of people. She promised me that mine was big, and that I was the lucky one for it.”

Source : Johanna Lindsey (2004). “A Man to Call My Own: A Novel”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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