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Post #332
—Calvin Coolidge
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Post #329
—William Wycherley
Thursday, August 26, 2010
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Post #327
—Robert Louis Stevenson
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Post #325
—Ray Kroc
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Post #324
—Leonardo da Vinci
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Post #323
—Samuel Smiles
Friday, August 20, 2010
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Post #321
—William Hazlitt
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
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Post #318
—Cornelius Vanderbilt
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Post #317
—Dorothy Parker
Saturday, August 14, 2010
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Post #315
—John Muir
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Post #314
this is not done by jostling in the street.
—William Blake
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
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Post #310
Breath's a ware that will not keep.
Up, lad; when the journey's over
There'll be time enough to sleep.
—A.E. Housman
Saturday, August 07, 2010
Post #309
'Tis Solitude should teach us how to die;
It hath no flatterers.
—Lord Byron
Friday, August 06, 2010
Post #308
—Albert Einstein
Thursday, August 05, 2010
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Post #306
—Cicero
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
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Post #304
—George Bernard Shaw
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Post #303
—Voltaire
The Penalty of Leadership
In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. ¶Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. ¶In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. ¶The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. ¶When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. ¶If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. ¶Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. ¶Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. ¶Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. ¶Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. ¶The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. ¶The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. ¶There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. ¶And it all avails nothing. ¶If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. ¶Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. ¶That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. ¶That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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