Quote by Irving Babbitt
To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adj

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it. – Irving Babbitt

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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism. – Irving Babbitt

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Faith
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. – Irving Babbitt

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Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix. – John Mayer

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Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. – Charles Stanley

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Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures. – Bryant H. McGill

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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A vine bears three bunches of grapes. The first, the bunch of pleasure; the second, that of drunkenness; the third, that of disgust. – Anacharsis (early 6th century BCE), paraphrase by Diogenes Laërtius (3rd C. CE)

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In the binary system we count on our fists instead of on our fingers. – Author Unknown

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