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In ourselves are triumph and defeat.
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not
troubled with great ambitions.
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and learn to wait.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change.
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