“Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.” MenEndsRunningTalentSafetyCompromisePerceiveReasonableContentmentStabilityProgressionSettlement Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes; that runs into matrimony, as a horse rushes into battle; I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a sort of ladies that are to be pray'd for among the rest of distemper'd people; and to me they look like people that venture their whole estates in a lottery where there is a hundred thousand blanks to one prize.” PeopleThinkingFirstsLooksI CanStatesWholeRunningChristianWomenPrayingBattleThousandHundredHorseSafetyPrizeResolveEstatesVentureImpatientLotteryMatrimonyGood Christian Book:The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt Source: The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt
“Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.” MenLongRunningActionLeftGrowthAnimalSafetyOccupationWeed Book:Six Months in Italy Source: Six Months in Italy