"Failure is the true test of greatness"

-- Herman Melville

#Greatness Quotes #Tests Quotes

“Photos should focus on your waist up, unless you have amazing legs. Then it's okay to include one or two full-body shots in your gallery. The majority of your photos should be closer up, highlighting your face. Don't stage a smile. Instead, try to laugh just before the shot is taken. Flirty smiles that don't look cheesy also work. Make eye contact with the camera. Aim to take most of your photos outdoors.”
“All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.”
“Harry Potter changed my life in more ways than one, and it helped me get through my mothers death.”
“Whoever seeks honor [by marrying a woman] will be tested with lowliness, and whoever seeks wealth [by marrying a woman] will be tested with poverty, but whoever looks for righteousness [in a woman], then Allah would combine both honor and wealth with righteousness for him in her.”
“In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.”

Source : Louise Beebe Wilder (1918). “Colour in My Garden”
“Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.”
“The most important thing is to just be good at what you do.”
“These golden matters Of Gyges and his treasuries Are no concern of mine. Jealousy has no power over me, Nor do I envy a god his work, And I do not burn to rule. Such things have no Fascination for my eyes.”

Source : Archilochus, Sappho, Alcman, Guy Davenport (1980). “Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman: three lyric poets of the late Greek Bronze Age”, Univ of California Pr

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