William Matthews
William Matthews
men ridiculous chance
Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.
character men differences
There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet know nothing of his character, his inmost tastes arid feelings.
teacher men self
Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided--the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity.
book men talking
Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books.
men dwarves excellence
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 giant, and not a dwarf in your profession, you must always be growing. The man that has ceased to go up intellectually has begun to go down.
art pride men
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 to do. There is a sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in all its parts-which the superficial man, who leaves his work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns work into art. The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.
capacity drawing popular regularly
It's a very, very popular exhibition, regularly drawing capacity crowds.
achievement best biggest fabulous focus gave loved people son
His biggest accomplishment was being a fabulous son to me. He gave the world's best hugs. Our focus is just that he was wonderful, that people loved him and that he will be sorely, sorely missed.
bargaining cutting expect management sacrifices table
How are they going to expect the UAW to come to the bargaining table and make any concessions without management making some sacrifices and cutting the dividend?
fire quality frost
As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.
law attention firsts
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 for attention, is concentration-to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.
argument power-of-music ability
The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.
ideas choices coercion
God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.
purpose may pages
The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose.