enticies

“In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance & Other Essays

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”
― Florence Nightingale

“You would give up your dreams in order to escape your nightmares and I would not. I think it's a bad bargain.”
― Cormac McCarthy

“Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.