William Matthews Quotes

• Gran parte de la alegría de la vida consiste en hacer perfectamente, o al menos lo mejor posible, todo lo que uno intenta hacer. Hay un sentimiento de satisfacción, un orgullo al contemplar una obra así, una obra redonda, plena, exacta, completa en todas sus partes, que el hombre superficial, que deja su trabajo en un estado desaliñado, descuidado, a medio terminar, nunca podrá conocer. Es esta concienzuda plenitud la que convierte el trabajo en arte. La cosa más pequeña, bien hecha, se convierte en artística.

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  Art, Pride, Men

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• The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

  William Matthews

  Done, Artistic, Wells

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• The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.

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  Gratitude, Blessing, Self

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• One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration-to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.

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  Law, Energy, Attention

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• Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital as man. To be a giant, and not a dwarf in your profession, you must always be growing. The man that has ceased to go up intellectually has begun to go down.

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  Men, Dwarves, Excellence

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• The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

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  Argument, Power Of Music, Ability

  William Matthews, Sebastian Matthews, Stanley Plumly (2001). “The poetry blues: essays and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.

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  Want, Too Much, Way

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• It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have failed.

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  Quality, Attention, Dull

  William Matthews (1989). “Curiosities”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Las mismas decepciones de la vida escarmentarán y refinarán el espíritu de un hombre, y amargarán el de otro.

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  Disappointment, Failure, Spirit

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• Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work. Whatever your calling, master all its bearings and details, its principles, instruments and applications. Method is essential if you would get through your work easily and with economy of time.

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  Business, Mind, Principles

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• Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

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  Men, Ridiculous, Chance

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• Solitary reading will enable a man to stuff himself with information, but without conversation his mind will become like a pond without an outlet-a mass of unhealthy stag-nature. It is not enough to harvest knowledge by study; the wind of talk must winnow it and blow away the chaff. Then will the clear, bright grains of wisdom be garnered, for our own use or that of others.

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  Reading, Knowledge, Blow

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• What are the precise characteristics of an epigram it is not easy to define. It differs from a joke, in the fact that the wit of the latter dies in the words, and cannot therefore be conveyed in another language; while an epigram is a wit of ideas, and hence, is translatable. Like aphorisms, songs and sonnets, it is occupied with some single point, small and manageable; but whilst a song conveys a sentiment, a sonnet a poetical, and an aphorism a moral reflection, an epigram expresses a contrast.

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  Song, Reflection, Ideas

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• Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.

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  Desks, Thrive

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• We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one and the happy one.

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  Children, Two, Childhood

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• Stoutly as we may affirm that our disasters and vices are chargeable to luck, we never dream of ascribing our meritorious deeds, in the slightest degree to its agency. In such cases we quite unconsciously blink out of sight the magic power of the latter principle, so wondrous and all-controlling in its influence at other times, and coolly appropriate to ourselves not merely the lion's share, but the whole glory of our position.

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  Dream, Agency, Sight

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• One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

  William Matthews

  Talent, Shallow, Hundred

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• What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

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  Understanding, Progress, Steps

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• God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.

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  Ideas, Choices, Coercion

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• Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.

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  Mind, Succeed, Moments

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• The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained in free and easy chat with others.

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  Book, Ideas, Easy

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• As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

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  Fire, Quality, Frost

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• The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.

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  Character, Giving, Anxiety

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• Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books.

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  Book, Men, Talking

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• Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided--the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity.

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  Teacher, Men, Lakes

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