“Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well, that no one could find fault with it.”

Lecture IX
Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England (1851)

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English cleric and cardinal 1801–1890

Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer

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“Nothing could tempt me to do this man injustice, though I could hardly add to the injury he has done himself.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

Interview with the Chicago Times, Feb. 14, 1881.

“Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.”

Davy Crockett (1786–1836) American politician

As quoted in David Crockett: The Man and the Legend (1994) by James Atkins Shackford, p. 106

“I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

“Sometimes, he thought, all you could do was wait.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

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“I think very much of the people, as an old friend said he thought of woman. He said when he lost his first wife, who had been a great help to him in his business, he thought he was ruined — that he could never find another to fill her place. At length, however, he married another, who he found did quite as well as the first, and that his opinion now was that any woman would do well who was well done by. So I think of the whole people of this nation — they will ever do well if well done by. We will try to do well by them in all parts of the country, North and South, with entire confidence that all will be well with all of us.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Remarks at Bloomington, Illinois (21 November 1860); published in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953) by Roy P. Basler, vol. 4, p. 143
1860s

“Because sometimes, a man could do nothing about where he came from, he could only control where he went”

Lora Leigh (1965) American writer

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