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"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit."
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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."
"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."
"A mediocre response often is what achieves mediocre results."
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"The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me."
"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation."
"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect."
"O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!"
"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy."
"Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake."
"Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary."
"The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt."
"What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it."
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