"Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains."

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Source : Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.43, Courier Corporation

William Penn

#Patience Quotes #Mountain Quotes #Diligence Quotes

“My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about, 'a place beyond rightness and wrongness.”
“No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child”
“We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.”
“Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives us the promise and prospect of a transcendent world - far beyond the limits of our human experience - and it remains human, all too human.”

Source : Ernst Cassirer (2006). “An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture”
“Music is the universal language.”
“We became astronomers thinking we were studying the universe, and now we learn that we are just studying the 5 or 10 percent that is luminous.”
“A face at the window, a tap on the pane, who is it that wants me tonight in the rain?”

Source : "The Messenger at Night". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.
“I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.”

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