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Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
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Nothing can be more certain than that the character can only be sustained and strengthened by its own energetic action.
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Life must needs be disgusting alike to the idle rich man as to the idle poor man, who has no work to do, or, having work, will not do it.