Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men have become the tools of their tools.
The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
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