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"I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little."
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"The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill."
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"You cannot cross large rivers without building bridges."
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"The cost of anything is the focused energy you are prepared to bring to bear to pursue it."
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"Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials."
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"While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort."
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"There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer."
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"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
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"If only one person can do it, you cannot do it, if two people can do it, you can do it too."
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"Success does not come to a person's life by chance you have to fight for it."
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"Anybody can choose to relax but somebody must choose to pursue."
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"It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife."
Friendship
"Silence propagates itself and the longer talk has been suspended the more difficult it is to find anything to say."
Communication
"Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle."
Battle
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
Man
"Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words.We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind."
Wisdom
"If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father."
Emotion
"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."
Money
"Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
Happiness
"No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments."
Awareness
"The true art of memory is the art of attention."
Art
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