Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
Thornton Wilder
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More quotes by Thornton Wilder
- The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
- But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
- It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
- The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
- We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.