"Chance favors the prepared mind." Louis Pasteur, December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization.
"I hope these speculative studies will be entrusted mainly to those on whose hands time hangs heavy, and that we shall not overlook Mrs. Glasse's Cookery Book recipe for the jugged hare - 'First catch your hare.' " Winston Churchill, The Last Lion - Defender of the Realm, 1940 - 1965 by Paul Reid
"I'm not as bright as my students. I find I have to think before I write." Paul Weis who taught philosophy at Yale (Stated in the introduction to The Last Lion - Defender of the Realm, 1940 - 1965 by Paul Reid)
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It isn't the thing you do, dear.
It's the thing you leave undone.
Which gives you the bitter heartache
At the setting of the sun;
The tender word unspoken.
The letter you did not write,
The flower you might have sent, dear.
Are your haunting ghosts at night.
The stone you might have lifted
Out of your brother's way./
The bit of heartsome counsel
You were hurried too much to say.
The loving touch of the hand, dear,
The gentle and winsome tone.
That you had no time or thought for,
With troubles enough of your own.
These little acts of kindness,
So easily out of mind.
These chances to be angels,
Which even mortals find
They come in night and silence,
Each chill reproachful wraith,
When hope is faint and flagging,
And a blight has dropped on faith.
For life is all too s hort, dear.
And sorrow is all too great,
To suffer our slow compassion
That tarries until too late.
And it's not the thing you do, dear,
It's the thing you leave undone.
Which givs you the bitter heartache,>br>
At the setting of the sun.
Adelaide Proctor as shared in Streams in the Desert 1 - Adelaide Anne Procter (30 October 1825 – 2 February 1864) was an English poet and philanthropist.
"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation." Arthur Ashe, (1943–93), US tennis player
One ship drives east and another drives west
With the self-same winds that blow.
'Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales
Which tells us the way to go.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Winds of Fate; Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850 – October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude", which contains the lines "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone."
"Prepare. The time to win your battle is before it starts." Frederick W. Lewis
"Quiet is no certain pledge of permanence and safety. Trees may flourish and flowers may bloom upon the quiet mountain side, while silently the trickling rain-drops are filling the deep cavern behind its rocky barriers, which, by and by, in a single moment, shall hurl to wild ruin its treacherous peace." USA President James A. Garfield
"Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever, and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow." Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, Saint Austin, Blessed Augustine, and the Doctor of Grace, was an early Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy.
"The smallest things get to her. It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often- she is surprised and affronted." Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
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