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• The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.
• Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.
• A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything…
• The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.
• The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.
• One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many…
• Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.
• Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital as man.…
• The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that…
• It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do…
• We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one and the happy one.
• With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something…

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