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 You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.  Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can. - Terence We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them. The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town. Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable. Whatever limits us we call Fate. Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress. Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done. God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. If you can't bite, don't show your teeth. I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. Vanity is the quicksand of reason. 
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