SUCCESS
J'ai toujours vu que, pour reussir dans le monde, il fallait avoir l'air fou et etre Bage.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
Montesquieu—Pensées Diverges.
Le succes de la plupart des choses depend de
savoir combien il faut de temps pour reussir.
The success of most things depends upon
knowing how long it will take to succeed.
Montesquieu—Pensées Diverges.
How far high failure overleaps the bound
Of low successes.
Lewis Morris—Epic of Hades. Story of MarAut non tentaris, aut perfice.
Either do not attempt at all, or go through
with it.
Ovid—Ars Amatoria. Bk. I. 389.
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| text = Acer et ad palmae per se cursurus honores,
Si tamen horteris fortius ibit equus.
The spirited horse, which will of itself strive
to beat in the race, will run still more swiftly
if encouraged.
Ovid—Epistolce Ex Ponto. II. 11. 21.
A man can't be hid. He may be a pedler in
the mountains, but the world will find him out
to make him a king of finance. He may be carrying cabbages from Long Island, when the
world will demand that he shall run the railways of a continent. He may be a groceryman
on the canal, when the country shall come to
him and put him in his career of usefulness. So
that there comes a time finally when all the
green barrels of petroleum in the land suggest
but two names and one great company.
Dr. John Paxton—Sermon. He Could not
be Hid. Aug. 25, 1889- Extract from The
Sun. Aug. 26, 1889.
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| text = <poem>He that will not stoop for a pin will never be
worth a pound.
Pepys—Diary. Jan. 3, 1668. Quoted as a
proverb by Sir W. Coventry to Charles
II.
Successus improborum plures allicit.
The success of the wicked entices many more.
Piledrus—Fables. II. 3. 7.
Sperat quidem animus: quo eveniat, diis in
manu est.
The mind is hopeful; success is in God's hands.
Plautus—Bacchides. I. 2. 36.
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma of the kind
which human ingenuity may not, by proper application resolve.
Poe—The Gold Bug.
The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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Say, shall my little bark attendant sail,
Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?
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| work = Essay on Man.
| place = Ep. 4. L. 385.
In medio spatio mediocria firma locantur.
It is best for man not to seek to climb too'
high, lest he fall.
Free rendering of the Latin by Lord Chief
Justice Popham in sentencing Raleigh to
death, quoting Nicholas Bacon.
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| text = <poem>Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor
from the west, nor from the south.
Psalms. LXXV. 6.
Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier
qui peu avance.
Singing and dancing alone will not advance
one in the world.
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| work = Confessions.' V.
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the
fruit,
He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his
suit.
Scott—The Talisman. Ch. XXVI.
Honesta quaedam scelera successus facit.
Success makes some crimes honorable.
Seneca—Hippolytus. 598.
is Such a nature,
Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow
Which he treads on at noon.
Coriolanus. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 263.
Didst thou never hear
That things ill-got had ever bad success?
Henry VI. Pt.III. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 45.
To climb steep hills
Requires slow pace at first.
Henry VIII. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 131.
Ye gods, it doth amaze me,
A man of such a feeble temper should
So get the start of the majestic world,
And bear the palm alone.
Julius Cmsar. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 128.
A great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.
Bernard Shaw—Mrs. Warren's Profession.
Act IV.
Have I caught my heav'nly jewel.
Sir Philip Sidney—Astrophel and Stella.
Song II. Merry Wives of Windsor. Act
III. Sc. 3. L. 45.
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| num = | text = <poem>Who shootes at the midday Sunne, though he
be sure, he shall never hit the marke; yet as sure he is, he shall shoot higher than who ayms but at a bush. Sir Philip Sidney—Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. P. 118. (Ed. 1638)
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