"Whenever we do what we can, we immediately can do more."

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Source : James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

James Freeman Clarke

#Ability Quotes

“Lord Grantham: â€˜My dear fellow. We all have chapters we would rather keep unpublished.”
“The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, why fiddle you must, for all your life.”

Source : Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.62, The Floating Press
“Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'”
“It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible.”
“The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my memory stretches, I have been a disappointed woman.... I was disappointed when I came to seek a profession worthy an immortal being--every employment was closed to me, except those of the teacher, the seamstress, and the housekeeper. In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.”

Source : Remark at a National Woman's Rights Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1855. "Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings" by Miriam Schnier, 1972.
“I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.”
“One thing which Stephen A. Douglas was temperamentally incapable of doing was admitting he was wrong. He always believed that 'popular sovereignty' - the core doctrine of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill - was the right solution to the slavery controversy; and even though it had failed to solve much of anything in Kansas and Nebraska, he stubbornly insisted that this was because it had never been adequately tested.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.”

Source : John Guare (2002). “The House of Blue Leaves and Chaucer in Rome”, p.44, The Overlook Press

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