"What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?"

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Source : Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

Logan Pearsall Smith

#Courage Quotes #Tree Quotes #Plums Quotes

“In the rural South, 'Bubba' is like how people say 'dude' in California. It's a name for a regular Southern man. I know a Chinese Bubba, a black Bubba.”

Source : Interview with Colleen Long, onlineathens.com. October 31, 2003.
“Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.”
“Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long term.”
“There may be a point in your life in which you are drowning so fast and fighting it so furiously that you don't have the strength left to call out for help. At that point don't expect one of your friends to jump into the water, if you've spent most of your life instructing them to mind their own business.”
“Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.”
“Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister,Antoinette, writes me that she is beginning to be frightened of her own people.”
“AÂ true champion is not judged by how much he or she is admired, but by how well they can stand at the face of adversity.”
“Human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.”

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