Accomplishments have taken ...

Accomplishments have taken virtue\'s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
 William Cowper

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
 Herb Kelleher
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
 William Cowper
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
 William Cowper
No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
 William Cowper
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
 William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
 William Cowper