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"Effort will always triumph over unapplied potential."

"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."

"Everything is hard before it is easy."

"It's not going to be easy, but it's kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done."

"If someone tells you that you can achieve your dreams with little to no work, they are lying to you."

"Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses."

"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
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"It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort."

"Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture."

"To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination."
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