"Remember, a dead fish can float downstream,..." - Quote by W C Fields
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
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More on Life
“The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one's dutiful life in virtue as a devastating storm.”
“The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.”
“The forest waves, the morning breaks,The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons beAnd life pulsates in rock or tree.”
More on Effort
“If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual.”
“In any profession it gets to be a grind.”
“Only one who bursts with enthusiasm do I instruct; Only one who bubbles with excitement do I enlighten. If I hold up one corner and you do not come back to me with the other three, I do not continue the lesson.”