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"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."

"The power of imagination is a miracle."
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"Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry."


"It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action."


"The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom."


"The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty."


"Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers."
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