Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest Seize this very minute What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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