Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.
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Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone, But moral doubt.
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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect.
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