“To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something”
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“To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something”
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit ”
“One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low”
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph ”
“Diligence is the mother of good fortune”
“Success is dependent on effort”
“Willpower is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see”
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young ”
“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply”
“All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move”
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence”
“The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit ”
“Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous ”
“My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?”
“What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.”
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend ”
“If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it”
“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”
“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work”
“There is no substitute for hard work”