Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.
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Unlike my subject now shall be my song It shall be witty, and it shant be long.
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The dews of the evening most carefully shun, Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
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Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
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