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The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. – Stanley Baldwin

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A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision but believe me, after six months experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time – patience. – Stanley Baldwin

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Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real. – Francis Herbert Hedge

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Idealism increases in direct proportion to ones distance from the problem. – John Galsworthy

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