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Our forces begin to fail us; let us call them in and concentrate them in and for ourselves.

If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

The task was likely to be long and strenuous, and an ordered mind and a clear programme were essential if we were to come through without loss of life.

It is neither to do everything yourself nor to appoint a number of people to each duty, but to ensure that each does that duty to which he is appointed.

Let your doubt be to yourself, your decision to them.

I have learned already in this office that the difficult decisions always come to this desk.

Bear toil and pain, not as if wretched under it, nor as courting pity or admiration.

For death also is one piece of the business of life, and, here as elsewhere, it is enough to do well what comes to our hand.

I had, and still have, determined perseverance, but I soon found that it was in vain to occupy my mind beyond a certain time.

Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of life-energy.

success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price, and it is yours.

All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it.

Failure in any good cause is, however, honourable, whilst success in any bad cause is merely infamous.

What is done in business must be well done; for it is better to accomplish perfectly a small amount of work, than to half-do ten times as much.

If thou bear it unwillingly, thou makest a burden for thyself and greatly increaseth thy load, and yet thou must bear it.

Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry, or fear. Go as fast as you can, but never hurry.

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

Let the day's work suffice; live for it, regardless of what the future has in store, believing that to-morrow should take thought for the things of itself.

Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.

The leading rule for a lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence.

Ever since then I have had no patience with any school for my race in the South which did not teach its students the dignity of labour.

There is a vast difference between working and being worked.

The Government can not successfully insure prosperity or fix prices by legislative fiat.

Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil.