"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 From Thornton Wilder
- "The best thing about animals is that they don’t talk much."
- "Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion."
- "When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole."
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- "I love criticism just so long as it’s unqualified praise."― Noel Coward
- "Do I think it’s OK to fight authority as long as you’re only talking about the high school teacher? No."― John Mellencamp
- "My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn’t approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, ‘There’s no such thing as ‘can’t.’"― Archie Panjabi