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"The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better."
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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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"The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect."

"If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea."

"Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it."

"It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets."
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