Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
If you train too much, it can rule your life, and I don't think that's healthy - for men or women.
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
The mind as well as the body must be not only strong but well disciplined in order to act with promptness and vigor in new and untried situations. It is hard to turn men's minds from the old and deeply worn channels in which they have long been flowing.
Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.
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