“6384. He that would please all, and himself too,
Undertakes what none could ever do.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“He was ever first to undertake hardship.”
Book I, line 242
Punica
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“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
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Sanai (1080–1131) Persian poet
Enclosed Garden Of Truth (Hadiqat al-Haqiqa wa Shari'at al-Tariqa): translated by John Stephenson, 1910
“No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
“ Citizens of Foreign Birth http://books.google.com/books?id=_VYEIml1cAkC&pg=PA87&dq=%22No+man+that+does+not+see+visions%22”, Philadelphia (10 May 1915) <br class="br">1910s
Ali al-Rida (770–818) eighth of the Twelve Imams
Muhammad Kulayni, Usūl al-Kāfī, vol.1, p. 23.
Religious Wisdom
Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War
Book VI, 6.23-[2]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book VI
“He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Book I, Ch. 9
Attributed
Variant: He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Variant: It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
“The first time I ever met him, he was the same little obnoxious weed that he is now.”
Harbhajan Singh (1980) Indian cricketer
Matthew Hayden, quoted on CNN, "Hayden rebuked for Harbhajan insult" http://www.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/02/27/cricket.hayden/, February 27, 2008. <br class="br">About
“The first time I ever met him, he was the same little obnoxious weed that he is now.”
Matthew Hayden (1971) Australian cricketer
On cricketer Harbhajan Singh, quoted on CNN, "Hayden rebuked for Harbhajan insult" http://www.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/02/27/cricket.hayden/, February 27, 2008.
Khalil Gibran book Jesus, The Son of Man
A Philosopher: On Wonder And Beauty
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Context: He knew the depth of beauty, He was for ever surprised by its peace and its majesty; and He stood before the earth as the first man had stood before the first day.
We whose senses have been dulled, we gaze in full daylight and yet we do not see. We would cup our ears, but we do not hear; and stretch forth our hands, but we do not touch. And though all the incense of Arabia is burned, we go our way and do not smell.