We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies—it is the first law of nature.
Work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and need.
- Topic: Work
- Location: Glacier National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
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One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness for the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
The minute you get away from fundamentals—whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation—the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you're doing.
When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.
Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.