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Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting-point for future power and triumph.

To be able to do a thing, you must begin to do it, and keep on doing it until the thing is mastered.

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.

If he is perplexed, unhappy, restless, or wretched, let him look to himself, for there and nowhere else is the source of all his trouble.

Nothing comes unbidden; where the shadow is, there also is the substance.