Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
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Thought...quickly tends to convert itself into a power, And organizes a huge instrumentality of means.
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If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
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There is no way to success in our art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
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Don't waste life in doubts and fears spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hours duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.
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