"If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!"

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Source : Lewis Carroll (1954). “The diaries of Lewis Carroll [pseud.]”

Lewis Carroll

#Limits Quotes #Faults Quotes #Action Quotes

“The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.”

Source : Edmund Waller, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller: Collated with the Best Editions”
“Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.”
“Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.”
“Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.”
“He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.”
“I think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable young man [Barack Obama] has kept his demeanor, kept his temperament and has shown a power to inspire. I see what energy that he has inspired among the young. Well, it inspires us old goats too.”
“The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.”
“One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.”

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