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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by st...more

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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

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[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.