Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

Samuel Rogers

Never less alone than when alone.

Samuel Rogers · Human Life (1819)

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.

Samuel Rogers

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Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.

Herodotus · The source reads: “Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from.” · On the Persian royal couriers; the motto of the New York post office

You don't just luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.

Barbara Bush · The First Lady on luck.

Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.

Virgil · Georgics, I

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“Think nothing done while aught remains to do.”

“Never less alone than when alone.”

“It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.”

“Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.”

“You don't just luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.”

“Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.”