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“Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.”

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Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden

“As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.”

Fall Boys Danger Duty Speed Posts Worldly Pillars Fixing

Book:Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

Source: Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

“In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.”

Levels Business Duty Posts Accomplished Employee Hierarchy Incompetence Incompetent

Author:Laurence J. Peter

“Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.”

Way Position Duty Honor Posts Providence

Book:The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

Source: The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

“A President must call on many persons--some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home.”

Men Persons Home Social President Leadership Education Watches Progress Duty Medicine Posts Far Away Social Progress

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson