Books are a real solace, ...

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.
Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.
 John Burns

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Quotes from the same author

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.
 John Burns
For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.
 John Burns