"Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody."

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Source : Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

Augustus William Hare

#Motivational Quotes #Might Quotes #Fit Quotes

“There is no substitution for hustle, and if you don't hustle there will be substitution”
“I have a feeling-as compelling as a religious conviction-that if industry will constantly pass on to the worker and the customer all the savings of labor-saving machinery and invention, rather than siphon them off into the pools of watered securities, it will by that process keep distribution and production in balance and go as far toward Utopia as our poor human natures will go or be driven.”
“I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.”
“I'll wager I would have screwed things up regardless. But. . .can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming, 'Your cats! Give us all your gods-damned cats!”
“Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.”
“Activity does not necessarily equal progress.”
“Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.”
“We can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was.”

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