“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' ”
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“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' ”
“Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest”
“I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office”
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated ”
“The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for”
“Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.”
“You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs”
“Small projects need much more help than great ones”
“Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea”
“Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art”
“Great things are done when men and mountains meet”
“He who doubts from what he sees will never believe, do what you please”
“The busy bee has no time for sorrow”
“Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject . . . The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think”
“No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains”
“If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers.”
“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves”
“I was ever a fighter, so - one fight more, the best and the last!”
“A minute's success pays the failure of years”
“To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and, baffled, get up and begin again”