"The manly part is to do with..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.
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“It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.”
“When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.”
“When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.”
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“The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.”
“Let us live in the harness, striving mightily.”
“Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains.”