"Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison."

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Source : Samuel Hopkins Adams (2014). “Success”, p.817, Lulu Press, Inc

Samuel Hopkins Adams

#Strong Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Poison Quotes

“Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.”
“You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain't got nothing to do with that. I'm glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community.”

Source : "The Man Who Invented Hip Hop" by Zack O'Malley Greenburg, www.forbes.com. July 9, 2009.
“[C]ouches and chairs covered in scratches aim away from one another, making it possible for a dozen people to sit in this room at once and not have to talk to one other person, which is a miracle in furniture arrangement.”
“What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?”
“The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.”

Source : Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”
“Fear is a ... it's a weird thing, when you think about it. People are only afraid of other things, they're never afraid of themselves.”
“The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight”

Source : Moses Mendelssohn, Daniel O. Dahlstrom (1997). “Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings”, p.258, Cambridge University Press
“The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.”

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