A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
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To Arthur love is a state, not a process an atmosphere, not a study an assurance, not a hope a fact, not an ideal.Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.
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Passion takes no count of time peril marks no hours or minutes wrong makes its own calendar and misery has solar systems peculiar to itself.
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It is in the nature of all passionate and uncontrolled emotion to prey upon and weaken the forces of reflective power, as much as it is in the nature of controlled emotion to strengthen them.
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It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
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