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I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above t...

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It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may ...

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Amateurs look for inspiration the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Diligence and Application have their due Encouragement, even in the remotest Parts of the World, and...

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…everything may be done in a right way or a wrong; the right way is to do it as well as we can, as i...

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Preach the Gospel at all times. When necessary, use words.

He became...the ideal of that virtue which delights in its own work...doing everything with simplici...

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Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lis...

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...but since He gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capab...

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John LockeSecond Treatise of Government

Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth ...

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There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was m...

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At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the ...

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Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

...The happy Warrior... is he... who, with a natural instinct to discern what knowledge can perform,...

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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.