The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.John Burroughs
The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more than provident. Enough will not satisfy her, she must have all she can get by hook or crook.
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Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea I rave no more gainst time or fate, For lo my own shall come to me.
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