Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.
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It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.Samuel Smiles
'Where there is a will there is a way,' is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement.
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The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
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Time is of no account with great thoughts. They are as fresh today as when they first passed through their authors minds, ages ago.
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A place for everything, and everything in its place.
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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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