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With perseverance, the very odds and ends of time may be worked up into results of the greatest value.
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hope, which is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for whoso hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
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The road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will usually be the most successful.
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Thrift does not require superior courage, nor superior intellect, nor any superhuman virtue.