“Great things are done when men and mountains meet”
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“Great things are done when men and mountains meet”
“Without contraries is no progression.”
“The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much”
“I was ever a fighter, so - one fight more, the best and the last!”
“A minute's success pays the failure of years”
“Between genius and talent there is the proportion of the whole to its part”
“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell”
“The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.”
“I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line”
“The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled”
“There is little success where there is little laughter”
“Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately”
“Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him”
“How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.”
“One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake”
“Conciseness is the sister of talent”
“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite”
“The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also”
“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.”
“Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future”