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- It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is…
- Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
- The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
- Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
- An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
- The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts…
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