"I am sensible that he who means..." - Quote by Thomas Paine
I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up, and bearing with all their faults, follies, prejudices and mistakes until he can convince them that he is right.
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“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”
“Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.”
“Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off.”
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“Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.”
“I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.”
“One of the most influential people in my life, in addition to my mother, was my grandfather P.V. Gopalan, who actually held a post in India that was like the secretary of state position in this country.”
More on Patience
“Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.”
“The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.”
“You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.”