Don’t underestimate me.
I know more than I say,
think more than I speak, and
notice more than you realize.
– Author Unknown
There’s music in the sighing of a reed;
There’s music in the gushing of a rill;
There’s music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.
– Lord Byron, Canto the Fifteenth
From his (General Armstrong’s) example in this respect I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
– Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery, Chapter 11
Good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
– Thomas Alva Edison
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