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The supply of time, though gloriously regular, is cruelly restricted.

Everything is very simple in War, but the simplest thing is difficult.

These difficulties accumulate and produce a friction which no man can imagine exactly who has not seen War

The phantom of the next day, with the dreary five to follow, sate as a load upon my poor Sabbath recreations.

From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.

Life is not only short, but uncertain, and art is not only long, but absorbing.

The task was likely to be long and strenuous, and an ordered mind and a clear programme were essential if we were to come through without loss of life.

The task now was to secure the safety of the party, and to that I must bend my energies and mental power and apply every bit of knowledge that experience of the Antarctic had given me.

Nevertheless the person in charge never seems to look the impossibility in the face.

It is neither to do everything yourself nor to appoint a number of people to each duty, but to ensure that each does that duty to which he is appointed.

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

The responsibility of success or failure lay heavily upon me.

I have learned already in this office that the difficult decisions always come to this desk.

It is my service to think how I can best fulfil the demands that each day makes upon me, and to rejoice that others can do what I cannot.

Our life is frittered away by detail

Give scrupulous attention to the duty of the present moment.

Keenly conscious of the social confusion all about us and the hard economic struggle, we at times believed that the very struggle itself might become a source of strength.

Responsibility is null when nobody knows who is responsible; nor, even when real, can it be divided without being weakened.

Business that is ready and practicable goes off with ease; but when it is too heavy for the bearer, they fall both together.

If we do not watch, we lose our opportunities; if we do not make haste, we are left behind; our best hours escape us, the worst are to come.

With tireless energy and eager zeal, colored women have, since their emancipation, been continuously prosecuting the work of educating and elevating their race, as though upon themselves alone devolved the accomplishment of this great task.

Self-love is mainly to blame, making people fond of being first and aspiring in all matters, and insatiably desirous to engage in everything.

The first and last lesson of the useful arts is, that Nature tyrannizes over our works.

What is done in business must be well done; for it is better to accomplish perfectly a small amount of work, than to half-do ten times as much.

If thou bear it unwillingly, thou makest a burden for thyself and greatly increaseth thy load, and yet thou must bear it.