Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
CALVIN COOLIDGEKnowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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