I am astonished at the singular pertinacity and endurance of our lives. The miracle is, that what is is, when it is so difficult, ...if not impossible, for anything else to be; that we walk on in our particular paths so far, before we fall on death and fate, merely because we must walk in some path; that every man can get a living, and so few can do anything more. So much only can I accomplish ere health and strength are gone, and yet this suffices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Firmness yclept in heroes, kings and seamen, That is, when they succeed; but greatly blamed... As obstinacy, both in men and women, Whene'er their triumph pales, or star is tamed -- And 'twill perplex the casuist in morality To fix the due bounds of this dangerous quality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »