The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.Charles Caleb Colton
Mystery is not profoundness.
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Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers on their road.- Both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.
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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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