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Courage, combined with energy and perseverance, will overcome difficulties apparently insurmountable.
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Difficulties may intimidate the weak, but they act only as a wholesome stimulus to men of resolution and valour.
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Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details, and carries him onward and upward in every station in life.
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Patience lies at the root of all pleasures, as well as of all powers.
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The mere drudgery undergone by some men in carrying on their undertakings has been something extraordinary, but the drudgery they regarded as the price of success.
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The road to success may be steep to climb, and it puts to the proof the energies of him who would reach the summit.
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hope, which is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for whoso hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
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Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
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The road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will usually be the most successful.
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Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.