William Matthews Quotes

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• The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.
• Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.
• A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which one attempts…
• The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.
• The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.
• One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring…
• Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.
• Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital as man. To be a…
• It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to…
• We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one and the happy one.
• With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable…
• The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained in free and easy chat…
• Solitary reading will enable a man to stuff himself with information, but without conversation his mind will become like a pond without an outlet-a mass…

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