When you have begun a great project, press forward until it is completed. Do not look back; do not be distracted by the ambient noise of life, the doubting whispers of others, or the gnawing doubts that will inevitably bore their way into your consciousness. Nothing great was ever accomplished by half-measures; and the failure of grand ambition is still more inspiring than the cautious steps of the timid man. In a 1368 letter to Pope Urban V, the humanist Petrarch wrote the following words that I happened to read this morning:
Quintus Curtius 
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