Johann Kaspar Lavater: The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great…
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprize; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
In today’s wordsThe cautious see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both, shrinks the one and makes the other outweigh it, and so wins.
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