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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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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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Work educates the body, as study educates the mind; and that is the best state of society in which there is some work for every man's leisure, and some leisure for every man's work.
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Work in moderation is healthy, as well as agreeable to the human constitution.