Appeals Quote by William Matthews

“What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?”

William Matthews

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Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.

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One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are…

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The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

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