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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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"A lazy person will never grow wealthy."
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"The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?"
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"Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."
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"The work is plentiful but the labours are few."
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"If you have never planted, then you cannot expect a great harvest."
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"But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got."
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"Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive."
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"Planting flowers in a desert is more productive than imparting wisdom to fools."
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"It depends on you, to keep pushing forward until you win or giving in. Always choice the former."
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"Work while you have strength."
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"Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness."
Vice
"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."
Life
"To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light."
Dream
"There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine."
Religion
"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy."
Truth
"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."
Power
"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."
Power
"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit."
Effort
"Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary."
Wisdom
"If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors."
Actor
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