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strong jobs men
No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers. Charles Caleb Colton
strong mind haste
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
strong party reason
He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.
strong hands monsters
The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.
strong advice desire
When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.
strong passion may
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
strong men thinking
Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.
strong circles errors
Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.
strong two mind
No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.
leaves-of-grass persons
Are you the new person drawn toward me? Walt Whitman
leaves-of-grass democratic nations
Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.
leaves-of-grass shows smallest
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.
leaves-of-grass world sound
I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
leaves-of-grass objects
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
leaves-of-grass individual theory
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
leaves-of-grass tamed bits
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.
leaves-of-grass lucky born
Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
leaves-of-grass grass walt
It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards. Thomas Wentworth Higginson