“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.”
“Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.”
Audendo magnus tegitur timor.
Book IV, line 702 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver.”
Source: (1776), Book III, Chapter IV, p. 420.
“Good and great are seldom in the same man.”
“1752. Great and Good are seldom the same Man.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“There's no great loss without some small gain.”
Source: Little House on the Prairie (1935), Ch. 25; said by Ma, after Pa lost the corn crop to blackbirds but brought home some of the birds for dinner.
“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”
“Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.”
As cited by Drew Gilpin Faust, " Harvard Business School Centennial http://www.harvard.edu/president/speech/2008/harvard-business-school-centennial," at harvard.edu, October 14, 2008.
"The Failure of Business Leadership and the Responsibility of the Universities", 1933
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The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IX - A Painter's Views on Painting
