William Mathews quotes
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“The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.”
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“Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.”
-- William MathewsSource : William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.136, Belford Bros.
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“[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!”
-- William MathewsSource : William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.93, Belford Bros.
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“It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.”
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“In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.”
-- William MathewsSource : William Mathews (1874). “The Great Conversers, and Other Essays”, p.50
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“What a man does is the real test of what a man is.”
-- William MathewsSource : William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.9, Belford Bros.
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“No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.”
-- William MathewsSource : William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.3, Belford Bros.
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“So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden one into another's, that some of the most sagacious of men, as Cardinal Mazarin and Rothschild, seem to have been inclined to regard luck as the first element of worldly success; experience, sagacity, energy, and enterprise as nothing, if linked to an unlucky star.”
-- William MathewsSource : William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.23, Belford Bros.
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“As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.”
-- William MathewsSource : William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.284, Belford Bros.
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“Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.”
Source : Quoted in James Parton, Life and Times of Aaron Burr, 7th ed. (1858)
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Source : Abraham Cowley, Abraham Cowley, Etc, A. R. Waller (2014). “Essays, Plays and Sundry Verses”, p.377, Cambridge University Press
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Source : "Why Consumer Style Sells in the Corporate World: 10 Questions With Box Ceo Aaron Levie". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. August 20, 2012.
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“I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.”
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“One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!”
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“If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.”
Source : Song: Try Again, Album: I Care 4 U
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“Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.”
Source : Aaron Hoopes (2010). “Zen Anti-Diet: Mindful Eating for Health, Vitality and Weight Loss”, p.14, Aaron Hoopes
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