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""Where there is a will there is a way," is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself."
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"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."
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"Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever."
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"Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only."
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"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done."
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"It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune."
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"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice,"
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"We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."
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"The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained"
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"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality our desires being often but precursors of the things which we"
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"It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success"
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"It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own n"
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"Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but,"
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