"Great success is a great temptation."

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Source : Theodore Parker (1864). “Miscellaneous Discourses”, p.130

Theodore Parker

#Temptation Quotes #Great Success Quotes

“You can be the best actor in the world, but if you don't have that one lucky moment, it kind of doesn't matter. There are a lot of amazing actors who will never get the chance to prove themselves because they won't have that one lucky moment.”
“I've learned to keep things simple. Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart.”
“The word heaven means harmony. The word hell is from the old English hell, meaning to build a wall around, to separate; to be helled was to be shut off from. Now if there is such a thing as harmony there must be that something one can be in right relations with; for to be in right relations with anything is to be in harmony with it. Again, if there is such a thing as being helled, shut off, separated from, there must be that something from which one is held, shut off, or separated.”
“If you want to be happy, all you have to do is be happy.”
“If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God.”
“The thing that I'm most in love with is the thing that I'm writing at the moment.”

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“One of the paradoxes that makes the internet such a suggestive place is that, on the one hand, we perceive it as perpetually in motion and changing, and, on the other hand, it has this god-like immortality to it: It seems like it won't die and is not subject to decay, and that everything can be unwound, unlike present-tense experience, where you can't archive the present moment, you can't go back and read it over again. That's the fundamental hallmark of the internet.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.”

Source : Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “The poetical works of N.P. Willis”, p.161

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