"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."
"The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds the poems passed beyond recall, are fixed on the printed page in a hundred tongues. They carry to a million eyes what once could reach but a hundred ears."
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Source: Nicholas Murray Butler (1911). “Philosophy”
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