Permanence, Perseverance and Persistence

"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things, distinguishes the strong soul from the weak." ~ Thomas Carlyle Never give up. John Milton wrote Paradise Lost years after he had lost his eyesight. Fewer than a dozen of Emily Dickinson's poems were published in …

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Excellence is a Habit

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” ~ Aristotle I had the pleasure of watching the Academy …

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