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"Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions."
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"Persistence creates genius; without persistence, there is no winner."
"All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking."
"When you get a pinch and decide to give up, you will get a cut when you eventually do so. The consequences of giving up are more harmful than the causes. Just don't give up!"
"Sometimes giving up feels like the easiest thing to do. But then the easiest thing has never produced more than a garden full of weeds."
"Talent does not automatically generate success. You can be talentless, but so long as you have fortitude then you will have success."
"Strong enough to make holes in the rock are tiny drops of water that persist to fall. Persistence is the attitude that breaks down mountains one rock at a time!"
"To succeed even once you have to try at least once."
"With patience, you will finish the race set before you."
"For some, putting in the time or work to be prepared and live deliberately is natural. For others? It's work. However, as in the words of Thomas Jefferson, "If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done."
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"It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by, and I know right well that any good that intermixed itself with my apprenticeship came of plain contented Joe, and not of restlessly aspiring discontented me."
"She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea."
"Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!"
"Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine."
"The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day."
"Mrs. Joe war eine sehr reinliche Hausfrau, doch sie verstand sich ausnehmend gut darauf, ihre Reinlichkeit bequemer und unertrA¤glicher zu machen, als jeder Schmutz gewesen wA¤re. Die Reinlichkeit ist der Gottesfurcht verwandt, und manche verfahren mit ihrer Religion ganz genauso."
"I only hope, for the sake of the rising male sex generally, that you may be found in as vulnerable and soft-hearted a mood by the first eligible young fellow who appeals to your compassion."
"Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up, and then they lengthens it out."
"It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too."Are you, Joe?"Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!"
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