Invention flags, his brain ...

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy,
And black despair succeeds brown study.
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.
 William Congreve

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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
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
You have inside you the capacity to invest your mental, emotional, and spiritual gifts in a way that glorifies God, impacts the world, and satisfies your own soul. I believe that-and I want you to believe it, too.
 David Jeremiah

Quotes from the same author

Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
 William Congreve
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.
 William Congreve
Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.
 William Congreve
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
 William Congreve
Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast...
 William Congreve