"It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better."

-- William Penn

#Men Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Doing Good Quotes

“It would be difficult, indeed, to overestimate the transcendent importance of the part the railroad has played in making the Nation what it is to-day. Perhaps it would be within bounds to say that without railroads to bind the States into one homogeneous whole, the Nation never could have attained its present size and importance.”

Source : "Collected Mathematical Papers".
“You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.”
“There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of refinement and nobility of character.”
“Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.”
“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”
“just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can”
“Let those who want to dance, dance. Let those who can awaken, awake.”
“The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.”

Source : Ezra Pound (1970). “A Memoir of Gaudier-Brzeska”, p.140, New Directions Publishing

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