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“The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.”

Firsts Boys Careers Essentials Capable Enjoyment Relish

Author:Charles M. Schwab

“The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.”

Soul Sometimes Suffering Imagination Walks Pay Poet Fine Essentials Capable Productions Dust Height Ecstasy Sensibility Temperament Transport Morbid

Author:Myrtle Reed

“There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex. "She is a remarkably good chemist--for a woman," you might hear a man say. It seemed to me essential, if the ablest young women scholars were to achieve the best work of which they were capable, that they should be held to the most rigorous standards. ...To advance, a woman must do at least as good work as her male colleagues, usually better.”

Ifs Men Should Might Young Sex Achieve Danger Essentials Highest Capable Standards Males Sexism Judged Scholar Good Work Young Women Colleagues Advancement Best Work Chemist

Author:Virginia Gildersleeve

“The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.”

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Author:Plato

“Difficulties are not interruptions to our journey; they are part of it, as if they're part of the weave of the cloth of our lives. They weave in and become an essential part of the whole. Because the more challenges we face, the more capable we realize we are and the less there is to fear.”

Ifs Whole Faces Realizing Challenges Our Lives Journey Essentials Capable Difficulty Interruptions Challenges We Face

Author:Kimora Lee Simmons

“Jesus Christ was the only one capable of performing the magnificent Atonement because He was the only perfect man and the Only Begotten Son of God the Father. He received His commission for this essential work from His Father before the world was established. His perfect mortal life devoid of sin, the shedding of His blood, His suffering in the garden and upon the cross, His voluntary death, and the Resurrection of His body from the tomb made possible a full Atonement for people of every generation and time.”

“The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.”

Seems Sound Ability Essentials Capable Vulnerable Lions Frail

Book:The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America

Source: The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America

“I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence.”

Ifs Giving Believe Desire Certain Pleasure Emotion Events Protect Essentials Capable Weakness Selfishness Tenderness Eagerness Unselfishness Diffidence

Book:The Moon and Sixpence

Source: The Moon and Sixpence

“Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so often. Over the ensuing years that person we thought understood us best ends up regarding us with pity, indifference, or active dislike. Those who truly care can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive our worst sins. Rarely do we find someone capable of both.”

Years Persons Two Ends Stories Care Life Is Sin Worst Essentials Capable Understood Forgiving Active Pity Indifference Categories Divided Dislike Quests Parts Of Life

Book:Glass Soup

Source: Glass Soup

“The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.”

Facts Seems Science Nature Natural Essentials Capable Draws Accounts Mathematics Observation Mathematical

Author:James Jeans