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 Deep-versed in books And shallow in himself.  Pain is no longer pain when it is past. Only great men may have great faults. The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime. People fail forward to success. A well-spent day brings happy sleep. Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones come daily. We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still too close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest... might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion, as it had before. My crown is called content; a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy. I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us. Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement. Security is a false god; begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost. Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life? People who have the most birthdays live the longest. Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. Nothing succeeds like one's own successor. 
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