Inspirational Quotes by Francis Marion Crawford (Italian-born American Novelist)

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
—Francis Marion Crawford
Topics: Expectation, Positive Attitudes, Failure, Optimism

If there were no evil in ourselves there could be no temptation from without, for nothing evil could seem pleasant.
—Francis Marion Crawford
Topics: Temptation

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
—Francis Marion Crawford
Topics: Friendship

Every man carries with him the world in which he must live.
—Francis Marion Crawford
Topics: Destiny

The devil knoweth his own, and is a particularly bad paymaster.
—Francis Marion Crawford

It makes little difference what the trade, business, or branch of learning, in mechanical labor, or intellectual effort, the educated man is always superior to the common laborer. One who is in the habit of applying his powers in the right way will carry system into any occupation, and it will help him as much to handle a rope as to write a poem.
—Francis Marion Crawford
Topics: Education

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