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It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

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Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a…
The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape.
If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!
It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.
Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.
The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers…
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place,
The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.
A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.
In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing…
In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the…

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It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as… — Niccolo Machiavelli
For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of… — Norm MacDonald
And it will always happen that he who is not your friend will request your neutrality and he who is your friend… — Niccolo Machiavelli
There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained… — Gautama Buddha
When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath... I can scarcely go on. No… — Reinhold Messner
The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong. — William Strunk, Jr.
To live in the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult, but those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster… — Sengcan
Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a… — Giacomo Leopardi

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