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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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"Talent helps, but success is only achieved and sustained through consistent effort."
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"I tried your best and it didn't work, so now I'm going to try my best and I'm sure that I'll succeed!"
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"Diligence always makes a person rich."
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"Do not stop giving your soul-best."
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"If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy."
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"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."
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"Success comes before work only in the dictionary."
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"Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive."
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"The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort."
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"You get what you work for, not what you think you deserve."
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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."
Morality
"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."
Justice
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."
Nature
"Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die."
Courage
"The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief."
Philosophy
"If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead."
Future
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
Time
"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
Art
"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."
Morality
"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."
Time
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