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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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"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."

"Work while you have strength."

"God has a plan and guess what? The plan is to stop waiting for him to do everything for you. The person you want in your life is not a sign. Not a clue. Not a wish. Not a prayer. Not a tarot card or a matter of timing. It is work. It is devotion, and like any dream if you want it then God will open doors for you to obtain it. You just have to stop setting the bar so low that everything below is a sign from God and everything above is asking too much."

"Good is not good, where better is expected."

"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
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"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."


"To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue."


"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education."


"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."


"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy."


"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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